is it possible that a lot of the out-sourcing is a substitute for importing skilled
workers (under the special visas whose name I've forgotten) to do the work here?
Jim D.
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From: joanna bujes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sun 3/28/2004 9:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Job flight
Some experts see benefits being derived from outsourcing. Exporting
routinized jobs such as programming can lower costs for companies and
give them the cash to invest in higher-skilled, more innovative jobs in
the United States.
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This is such a joke. I won't even comment about how they're going to
take their profits and invest them in "higher-skilled, more innovative
jobs in the U.S."
More interesting is the thesis that outsourcing is profitable for
hi-tech companies. I wonder how they figure out that profit. The very
large hi tech company I work for has outsourced a number of projects to
India and China. I know first hand that the results of this off-shoring
were nothing short of disastrous. Because of communication problems and
inept management, the work done offshore had to be done over, about
three times so far. This not only cost more time-wise and money-wise,
but in the meantime, my company shipped products that looked like they
were done in somebody's garage (while charging "enterprise" prices) and,
I suspect, considerably tarnished their reputation and credibility.
I am beginning to seriously question the "efficacy" and even the long
term "profitablity" of hi-tech outsourcing.
Joanna
