Stop Offshoring
Thursday, March 16, 2006
IBM recently announced that the company is offshoring some strategic R&D work to India, the kind of work the offshoring supporters said we should not fear being sent overseas. By next year, IBM expects to have over 55,000 workers in India.
If you're an American worker like me, don't expect President Bush to help. He thinks offshoring is great. Easy for him to say, we can't offshore his job, unfortunately.
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
I read an Australian IT article about the security dangers when offshoring data. The article brought up many of the concerns expressed previously, but I wanted to highlight one quote from the article:
"People won't be satisfied with the major banks making a profit here and shipping jobs overseas," a spokesman for the Finance Sector Union says. "Data security is a real concern. We've seen what happened with credit card numbers and we've seen people trying to sell data.
"Consumers want their data protected."
Doesn't that sum up why company executives outsource jobs offshore? It's all about padding their profits and therefore their own pocketbooks. It's not that companies need to send jobs overseas, or that it's better or safer. The reason executives offshore jobs -- despite what it does to their own country's workers, despite lower quality service and security dangers to their customers -- is greed, plain and simple. How sad.
