Stop Offshoring
Friday, January 09, 2004
For those who don't believe that you get (less than) what you pay for when offshoring, check out this Mercury News article: Offshoring labor savings don't add up
"Ultimately, Sattar decided there was little advantage to doing major development work in India -- especially as he watched his launch date slip from March 2003 to December and now to next month."
This is the kind of experience that I've found over and over again -- the offshore workers don't provide the same productivity level as workers in the U.S., and deadlines start slipping, causing havoc for everyone. The only winners are company execs who think they've saved some money and line their own pockets with hefty stock options. American workers either lose their jobs or work extra hours to compensate for their offshore counterparts.
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In other news, execs of leading U.S. high tech companies are trying to convince Congress that offshoring is a good idea.
Their "solution" to offshoring's negative effects on American workers is more education. As if they would hire an American with more skills over a cheaper foreigner. They haven't been doing that yet -- I don't see why they would start in the future.
"A vocal critic of moving jobs overseas, Marcus Courtney of Seattle, dismissed the latest report. 'This is not a recipe for job creation in this country,' said Mr Courtney, president of the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers. 'This is a recipe for corporate greed. They're lining up at the public trough to slash their labour costs.'"
"Democrat Senator John Kerry introduced a bill in November requiring service representatives to disclose their physical location each time a customer calls to make a purchase, inquire about a transaction or ask for technical support. The proposal targets the increasingly popular decisions by companies to move their call centres overseas to capitalise on low labour costs."
I haven't been following the platforms of the presidential candidates, but I thought this was interesting: "Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean said during a debate last month that America needs a president 'who doesn't think that big corporations who get tax cuts ought to be able to move their headquarters to Bermuda and their jobs offshore'."
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