Stop Offshoring
Thursday, June 23, 2005
AP news story: Pfizer to Outsource Some IT Jobs to India
Add Pfizer to the list of American companies participating in the weakening of this country.
I'm seeing an increasing amount of concern about slipping leadership among American companies, workers, students, etc. Some articles do attribute our increasing competitive disadvantage to offshoring, but not enough, in my opinion. We are a generous country in that we take in immigrants from all over the world, educate them at our schools (subsidized by American taxpayers), and send good jobs overseas. Is it any wonder that people in places like India are using what we gave them to strengthen their own countries at our expense?
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
A ZDNet news article cites a DiamondCluster study that found the number of offshoring customers satisfied with their providers fell from 79% to 62%. Additionally, the number of customers prematurely terminating their offshoring relationships doubled to 51%.
More news about offshoring failures needs to be made public for businesses to understand the mess they will get into when they offshore jobs. It appears that some companies are realizing that offshoring isn't the silver bullet they hoped it would be, and that they get what they pay for when they hire offshore employees, and, in my experience, even less than they paid for.
