>>By that time either the jobs will be recovering in the US,
>>or there will be considerable objection to white-collar outsourcing.
These are not mutually exclusive by any means. Having a job beats
starving, but having a job that is not nearly as good as the one you had
will not make you much happier with the government that brought it
to you.
The outsourcing issue is an outgrowth of the late 90's corporate cost
optimization
fetish and may abate when the brittleness of the approach starts
to show up (and get recognized in the business press). Doing more with
less is a sucker's game, anyhow. We all really want to do more with more
(IBM
TV commercials notwithstanding). Cost cutting and over-specification
is no substitute for good day-to-day management.
So, I think it will be an election issue, unless we're all shareholders
by then.
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Yet another outsourcing article, but a bit better than the rest, I
think. One point made was that the national discussions on this issue
will emerge in ernest after the next election. By that time either the
jobs will be recovering in the US, or there will be considerable
objection to white-collar outsourcing.
http://www.businessweek.com/print/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2003/nf20031215_8942_db046.htm?gb
..and naturally, the key question for us: how do we respond to
corporate research being outsourced to India and China? Its a tough
question. We are seeing more technology jobs hurt either by foreign
workers here willing to work for considerably less than american
engineers and scientists. So the job drain goes both direction: jobs
going abroad, and workers being imported.
I suspect there are natural solutions making this less troubling than
the shrill reporting would suggest, but I certainly haven't gotten my
brain around it. Maybe we should outsource more management and even
CEO/CIO/CTO jobs? I've always wondered why high-tech, and white collar
didn't unionize.
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