Should I Stay or Should I Go?

[freetobegay]

Sending jobs offshore to countries like India seemed like a sure bet. Now, some firms are having second thoughts.

April 19 issue - Wesley Bertch admits he fell for offshore outsourcing "hook, line and sinker." So when Bertch, chief techie for Minneapolis-based Life Time Fitness, a health club chain, needed software to evaluate potential new locations for gyms late last year, he looked overseas where he could pay $6 an hour instead of $60 for programmers. He hired a large, reputable Indian outsourcing firm a few months ago, then sat back and watched his troubles mount. Not only did the offshore team produce code that was full of bugs, they ran up big bills working overtime to fix their mistakes. Bertch finally canned the offshore contractors, hired several local programmers and started preaching to industry colleagues that managing such projects across oceans is doomed to failure. His biggest surprise? "I've since talked to scores of my peers, and we are all singing from the same hymn book," Bertch says

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4710299/

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Now of course Bush's economic team said this is a good idea. That right there told us it was doomed to fail.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Don't know about you

but when I call or get a call from a firm that has outsourced, I can't understand the callers. I hope that the firms using these people have monitoring devices so that they know that outsourcing isn't working this way, either.