Outsourcing American Jobs to Foreign Country
Though American
companies are reaping huge benefits by outsourcing their back office
operations to third world counties like India and China, there are
many technical and allied workers who are not the least happy.
A survey indicates that many workers in developed nations feel that
companies that outsource services to other countries should be
penalized and most are of the opinion that they would lodge a
lawsuit if affected by outsourcing.
American Job outsourcing has been in news for quite sometime and the
situation seems to grow worse as more and more companies' lay-off
employees. But is the situation really that grave? Probably not! A
survey indicates that less than 10% of American workers loose jobs
due to American Job outsourcing which makes the picture clear that
the problem is somewhere else. May be people have become rigid
because of the sheer pace at which things are happening.
Many economists now claim that the situation in the West is only
temporary and the climate will change as the US economy boosts and
newer jobs are created.
Research organizations and economists are of the opinion that
business process outsourcing titles is here to stay and is going to
see a major boom. The general economy though is highly speculative
of the developing trends and feels otherwise. Organization that
research business process outsourcing are of the strong opinion that
the loss of existing jobs will give rise to newer and better jobs in
the US and UK economy. They say that the jobs will be knowledge
based and will hold a creative view. So where and what is offshoring
going for in the future is something only time will tell.
The near shore outsourcing vs. outsourcing offshore debate seems to
be picking up heat. Many companies argue that security being the
first concern near shoring is a viable solution. They feel that near
shoring helps in better and faster communications as well as better
coordination as people belong to the same time zone and have similar
cultural backgrounds. Nearshore outsourcing will certainly change
the definition of job outsourcing.
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