Outsourcing Works So Well, India Is Exporting Jobs

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Outsourcing Works So Well, India Is Exporting Jobs
By ANAND GIRIDHARADAS
Published: September 25, 2007

MYSORE, India — Thousands of Indians report to Infosys Technologies’ campus here to learn the finer points of programming. Lately, though, packs of foreigners have been roaming the manicured lawns, too.

Many of them are recent American college graduates, and some have even turned down job offers from coveted employers like Google. Instead, they accepted a novel assignment from Infosys, the Indian technology giant: fly here for six months of training, then return home to work in the company’s American back offices.

India is outsourcing outsourcing.

One of the constants of the global economy has been companies moving their tasks — and jobs — to India. But rising wages and a stronger currency here, demands for workers who speak languages other than English, and competition from countries looking to emulate India’s success as a back office — including China, Morocco and Mexico — are challenging that model.

Many executives here acknowledge that outsourcing, having rained most heavily on India, will increasingly sprinkle tasks around the globe. Or, as Ashok Vemuri, an Infosys senior vice president, put it, the future of outsourcing is “to take the work from any part of the world and do it in any part of the world.”

To fight on the shifting terrain, and to beat back emerging rivals, Indian companies are hiring workers and opening offices in developing countries themselves, before their clients do.


Rest of article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/25/business/worldbusiness/25outsource.html?ref=world



uhc comment: So we outsource good jobs to India. India discovers they may have technology, but they don't know shit about American companies.

Kids getting out of college have shitloads of student loans to pay off, with few job prospects except the military.

The kid that would have gotten a $45/hr job goes to India for six months training & gets a $15/hr job in Atlanta.

Something's wrong with this picture.

[ThomWV]

1. So, the time has come that Americans may be doing the jobs Indians won't

[Justyce]

2. That's exactly what's happening.

The company I work for started outsourcing to India, then we got an Indian CEO, then he started outsourcing nearly everything to India, except a skeleton crew here to do damage control, so now we basically work for India. The clients are finally starting to open their eyes and question why the quality is so bad, why basic English phrases make no sense whatsoever, and complain. Hopefully this thing will turn around.

And now the worst part.... we work with medical records. So people in other countries who aren't legally bound to our privacy laws have your medical records. Scary huh?

[Skittles]

4. I am sick of the damage control part

SICK of pulling their incompetent butts out of the fire

[Tian Zhuangzhuang]

3. Plus India is really pricey.

You try and get a C-sharp team in India.... You might as well hire two american programmers in-house for 60 an hour rather than deal with the six $20 an hour indians.

The falling dollar is a big part of it but I really think they have run out of programmers over there and the higher prices reflect that.