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Wednesday, February 15, 2006
 
I just read an InfoWorld article that provides a ray of hope in the stampede toward offshoring. Writer Ephraim Schwartz wrote about a conversation he had with the CEO of Kana, whose company is "backshoring" development back to the U.S. Let's hope this is the start of a new trend. Backshoring -- I like it.

Some quotes from the article:

... he noticed that for every four or five offshore engineers, there was someone stateside whose responsibility was to manage that group and insure they were doing what the company wanted.

Beyond the top-heavy management structure, Fields also saw that the offshore development process was taking more time, not less.

“Too many companies,” Fields tells me, “just look at the cost of one engineer here and compare it to the cost of an engineer -- say, in China -- where the ratio in comparable wages might be as high as ten to one.” What they aren’t considering, he says, are the associative costs.

Thursday, February 02, 2006
 
It looks like there's no letting up in the offshoring movement in 2006. On the contrary, I'm seeing more stories about firms choosing to send their jobs offshore, and it's not just American companies, but also European ones as well. Sigh...

Offshoring could cost 38,000 jobs, ICTU warns
Accenture to double staff in India, China, Philippines


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