Outsourcing
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Outsourcing is the new catch phrase now a days, with not a day passing
without the mention of it. But Outsourcing of jobs from developed
countries to third world nations like India, China, Philippines, Mexico,
Russia etc has created a kind of negative attitude in the mind frames of
workers belonging to the developed nations against outsourcing. Let's
see the reasons for this fear psychosis.
Offshore job
outsourcing of back office jobs and even high end jobs in a very
short span has created job opportunities for the common man on one part
of the world where as one the other it has lead to mayhem and
speculative opinions.
Job outsourcing as a phenomena is not
new. It has been there since ages. So why is it that there has been so
much talk in the recent days about job outsourcing to foreign
lands? Well, one of the reasons is the sheer pace with which things are
happening. A sluggish economy, coupled with job cuts in a very short
span has made people in developed countries like US and UK to build a
negative outlook towards Outsourcing. This kind of backlash is seen
particularly among the technology and allied workers. Many websites that
oppose outsourcing have popped up and groups such as Techunite,
Alliance@IBM, CWA, WashTech etc have been formed in US and UK in order
to show their anger against outsourcing.
Economists are
pretty much sure that outsourcing is here to stay and is in the stage of
evolution. The backlash in US and UK against outsourcing is being
compared with the IT revolution of the 90's when manufacturing jobs were
being replaced by IT jobs. Plenty of workers in the manufacturing area
were laid off with short notice and there was large scale mayhem. But
the society seemed to cope up well with the situation and presently no
one seems to be complaining. Economists predict a similar fate for
Outsourcing and who knows they may be right. Cause no matter what, the
US and UK economics are actually benefiting in a major way due to
outsourcing.
It has been predicted that for every $ 100 of
job outsourced almost $ 142 gets reinvested in the US economy making
this very much a win-win situation. Also recent studies indicate a labor
shortfall of 5.6 million in US by the year 2010 and this gap can be
filled only through job outsourcing.
So irrespective of
short term job losses the economy is sure to benefit immensely in the
near future due to outsourcing
