What do you think about outsourcing all our jobs to India and south asia..?
156286
Corporate America will do anything to make or save a buck.  They pay off the lawmakers to make it easy for them to screw the rest of us.  Eventually we, as a people, will wake up and throw the bastards out and get back to working for ourselves rather than for Bush's friends.
539575
Sure, until they decide to offshore your job to India or Brazil.
20380
Outsourcing has put some people out of a job and helped entire classes of people develop financial independence for the very first time.  It's a matter of perspective, I guess, but my personal opinion is that people in wealthy countries have plenty of advantages over the third world countries that get outsourced work, and should take responsibility for managing their own careers.
660301
I am curious, did you get your education and experience in the U.S. and now want to take that to India?  Here are some leads for you but must say that all the outsourcing, i.e. 300,000 KPO openings at one company alone, does not make India real popular with the working class American.\n\nhttp://www.rediff.com/money/2006/apr/11sym.htm\n\nhttp://www.rediff.com/money/2006/apr/11sym.htm\n\nhttp://www.bangaloreclassifieds.com/\n\nhttp://job-seekers.placementindia.com/bangalore/medical/sales_marketing_male_jobseekers.htm
372144
This is what it is doing. We outsource jobs to India,China,etc. for lower store prices on stuff and profits, this raises those countries economy faster then normal then they need more oil and then the demand shoots up and we pay $3.00gal so did we save any money in the store
496935
I dont recommend outsourcing to India. The cost is not worth it.
782686
though you have not mentioned about the field of outsourcing, i earnestly believe that almost in every field India is ready for outsourcing.
337645
I'm amused by how many people think the government should dictate who private enterprise can pay for services, yet you'd get all bent out of shape if they dictated to you where you can buy your groceries.  And yes, absolutely, it's the same thing.\n\nEither you believe in the free market, or you don't.\n\nDo some research on the impact US phone support outsourcing is having in India, there's a whole new generation of rising-lifestyle youth, plus businesses popping up to provide them goods & services they aspire to with their new-found relative wealth.\n\nWhy do you think you deserve the ability to grow and prosper, but that it should stop at the border? If you don't like outsourcing, don't buy products from companies that do it/don't work for companies that do it.
62745
It is true that India is taking over more of the tech support jobs from call centers in the United States but doing a great job? I don't think so. The main problem is language. I had a problem with my DSL recently and the tech center was in India or Pakistan. I could barely understand the woman and had to ask her to repeat what she had said several times. I was on the phone with her for almost an hour. I can understand the people wanting to work in these call centers but they really need to learn english much better before they are hired.
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Outsourcing is not 100% bad.  It is natural.  \n\nIf a country can't compete and technology is available to do the work better and cheaper somewhere else, why should your government prevent you from taking advantage of that???\n\nNational borders are a bunch of crap and should be a relic of the 20th century.  The world should be without borders of any kind.
932055
Do you want us to?  We could you know.\n\nI think we'll outsource the part about reconstructing your country, but should make quick work of your military.
917478
I think you ignore the fact that India exports a lot of services (outsouced jobs, anyone?) and services usually don't come with a "made in India" tag. Inida contribute to world trade through its human capital, and in the 21st century it will be a major driving force.
215860
I think the "logic" is, hey, we outsource all our other jobs, why not outsource our security as well?
975856
I can answer this question from the viewpoint of Software engineering. Essentially many companies are outsourcing their development efforts to places like India and China. The main reasons are that it 'appears' to be cheaper and you can dump the unneeded tasks such as maintenance of old legacy code, development of really uninteresting software and keep all the really interesting tasks and intellectual property back home. However i believe this to be false economy. \n\nIn my experience in dealing with Indian companies i found that very often these type of outsourced tasks are performed by trainee developers recently graduated from Bangalore university. These people are used on such project to cut their intellectual teeth to enable them to pretend to be more experienced than they really are. The work performed is often seriously substandard and it is often the companies employees not the out sourcing company that has to  integrate this poor quality work. It can be likened having a company build your house and then you have to finish the foundations yourself. \n\nCertain studies in the UK have indicated the real saving as only 15%, but if you also add the additional project management effort by salaried managers and additional support work of project staff such as SCM, testers, Integrators,builders not to mention support ing processes that need adding to projects.  I believe the savings to be miniscule. \n\nThe biggest impact though I believe is going to in future product development . Many companies have let go of their experts as they have farmed off their particular projects to India. When there is a need to perform future development in these areas they will find they are a the mercy of the outsourcing company who will be  able to charge what they want and the company will no longer have the expertise to do their own. I can think of several big corporate Communications companies in the US who are in this position.
704871
Most of the US IT jobs are in India.  Stay there.
1136127
I think it's difficult for a lot of people to understand or support losing local jobs.  However, your scenario is accurate.  This is now a _global_ economy and people need to shift their thinking a little bit in order to understand the financial impact of decisions to outsource or not.   \n\nThe primary points of your argument are,\n1) There are equally competent engineers in India.  \nThis is true, in fact, of the people that I have worked with, I find that people in Indian firms are _highly_ competent, hard-working, and well-mannered.\n\n2) These competent engineers cost less.\nAbsolutely true.  This will probably change over time as the law of supply-and-demand starts to work, but not for awhile.  Although there is a great deal of demand for low-cose, high-potential engineers, there is also plenty of supply in the global markets.\n\n3) Companies that choose not to utilize global resources will lose.\nVery true.  The cost of product at such a company will be higher in some way.  The product will cost more to make, support, fix, enhance, etc.\n\n4) Downsizing has offsets.\nAlso true.  There will always be a need for direct customer interaction in many areas.  It's only the areas that can be serviced by remote people, like software development, testing, call centers, monitoring, etc that will be heavily impacted by global outsourcing.
920862
i think it is  a great idea.\ni will cooperate anybody to do the same in India.