Re: Job flight

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

is it possible that a lot of the out-sourcing is a substitute for importing skilled workers (under the special visas whose name I've forgotten) to do the work here?
Jim D. 

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: joanna bujes [mailto:jbujes@xxxxxxxxx] 
	Sent: Sun 3/28/2004 9:44 AM 
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	Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Job flight
	
	

	Some experts see benefits being derived from outsourcing. Exporting
	routinized jobs such as programming can lower costs for companies and
	give them the cash to invest in higher-skilled, more innovative jobs in
	the United States.
	
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	This is such a joke. I won't even comment about how they're going to
	take their profits and invest them in "higher-skilled, more innovative
	jobs in the U.S."
	
	More interesting is the thesis that outsourcing is profitable for
	hi-tech companies. I wonder how they figure out that profit. The very
	large hi tech company I work for has outsourced a number of projects to
	India and China. I know first hand that the results of this off-shoring
	were nothing short of disastrous. Because of communication problems and
	inept management, the work done offshore had to be done over, about
	three times so far. This not only cost more time-wise and money-wise,
	but in the meantime, my company shipped products that looked like they
	were done in somebody's garage (while charging "enterprise" prices) and,
	I suspect, considerably tarnished their reputation and credibility.
	
	I am beginning to seriously question the "efficacy" and even the long
	term "profitablity" of hi-tech outsourcing.
	
	Joanna