Outsourcing Creates
New Jobs Submitted By: Steve Parker Despite, the hue and cry over off-shoring
of call centre and programming jobs, the backlash against outsourcing is
far too exaggerated. Global Insight, a survey company hired by Information
Technology Association of America concluded that the entire process of off-shoring
/ outsourcing created more jobs than those lost.A worldwide economy is bound
to lead to globalisation leaving no industry safe from its effects, as off-shoring
/ outsourcing news proves every day.
From online tutors coaching American children to lawyers outsourcing legal
research / briefs for upcoming cases to India, it is a trend here for the
long-term. As most companies do business overseas, what can be more natural
than they employ people based in the country of their business interests?
Low wages, high tech communication are just a few factors that provide enormous
incentive to move operations overseas.Criticism against outsourcing / off-shoring
is misplaced as the Global Insight study reports.
Rather than reducing US jobs, outsourcing / off-shoring has helped lower
costs and create jobs as a result of a more efficient economy. According
to the report, in the year 2003, 194,000 IT and non-IT jobs were created
largely due to outsourcing / off-shoring. And, it is expected by 2008, that
number may well exceed the 589,000 new jobs created mark.If outsourcing
/ off-shoring is generating so many new jobs, and at the same time lowering
costs, while making the American economy function with smooth efficiency,
why is there so much breast-beating about lost jobs? Companies outsourcing
/ off-shoring low-end work, Click
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