Outsourcing Creates
New Jobs Submitted By: Steve Parker Despite, the hue and cry over off-shoring
of call centre and programming jobs, the backlash against outsourcing
is far too exaggerated. Global Insight, a survey company hired by Information
Technology Association of America concluded that the entire process of
off-shoring / outsourcing created more jobs than those lost.A worldwide
economy is bound to lead to globalisation leaving no industry safe from
its effects, as off-shoring / outsourcing news proves every day.
From online tutors coaching American children to lawyers outsourcing legal
research / briefs for upcoming cases to India, it is a trend here for
the long-term. As most companies do business overseas, what can be more
natural than they employ people based in the country of their business
interests? Low wages, high tech communication are just a few factors that
provide enormous incentive to move operations overseas.
Criticism against outsourcing / off-shoring is misplaced as the Global
Insight study reports. Rather than reducing US jobs, outsourcing / off-shoring
has helped lower costs and create jobs as a result of a more efficient
economy. According to the report, in the year 2003, 194,000 IT and non-IT
jobs were created largely due to outsourcing / off-shoring. And, it is
expected by 2008, that number may well exceed the 589,000 new jobs created
mark.If outsourcing / off-shoring is generating so many new jobs, and
at the same time lowering costs,Click
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