Do you support outsourcing?
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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.
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well for my small home business my wife has become the accountant , the bill collector  bill payer , the answering service. so this year we have outsourced our billing to a CPA. they now run the payment and the collection of fees owed. this has allowed the wife to work less and allow me to do what i am skilled in doing which is appraisal work. \n\nso depending upon what you are trying to accomplish here i would say anything that can be outsourced is feasible. find out how wide of a target market you want to attract. if you want to be some ones answering service then how many different clients do you want or do you want to specialize say for just private practice Dr offices. that way you don't have to learn every ones terminology for  hey i am on vacation here. \n\nfor me letting me do my job instead of being the chief of everything was a big relief.
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Outsourcing is capitalism....keep costs low so your profits will be higher.  Without profits, the company will not survive.  I do feel bad for the Americans that lose jobs due to outsourcing, but more jobs will be lost without it.\n\nHowever, when I call some outsourced customer service, it takes 5 times as long because the person on the other end does not understand my question....the result is a poor customer service experience.\n\nIs outsourcing good or bad?  It's both.  Since I own a business....I do outsource to Asia to save money.
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Please visit this web page :\nhttp://www.globalenvision.org/library/3/702/\nYou'll realise that America's outsourcing began well over 300 years ago !
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Hello this is Scott I am with soso outsourcing company.  Have I called at a bad time to ask you a couple of questions?  If I have I am sorry.   I only have 2x questions it won't take but a minute... can you give me that?   thanks
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It all depends on what you are outsourcing.\n\nTypically Pros\nIt costs less\nYou get more resources for your money\nIf it is not your core function why would you waste your limited resources\nYou don't need to outlay the cap ex for the process. \n\nCons\nYou just lost all control over the process.\nYou are at the mercy of your vendor. Choose wisely  \nYour SLAs may not be what you are used to.\n\nIf you would like to include what you are thinking about outsourcing you may get more thoughtful answers.
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Outsourcing is not against rules of economics, it is against the rules of Politics. The new laws in UK prove that politicians can go to any extent to protect their vote bank.
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The politics of outsourcing. The strategy of outsourcing is simply contracting out a segment or segments of a job to another business entity willing to take the job at less than it cost to produce it inhouse. When outsourcing occurs overseas, a questions of negative impact to the host country becomes noticiable. Lost jobs, lost tax base among others. It is certain, a point will be reached when the host country would have to address the decline in tax revenue, the increase of welfare and unemployment expenditures, and the rising voice of the jobless. What strategy of the outsourcee should be employed to lessen the prospect of the host country leveling the tax impact thru imposition of some type of value added tax for the outsourced goods or services transiting back to the host country:?
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Is this a question, or a resume? As far as outsourcing to India, what a joke, thats why the economy is going to hell. shipping our jobs overseas--why pay $20 an hour when you can outsource to India for 20 cents
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Have you thought of becoming a Virtual Assistant and going into business doing this for yourself?  That is what I have done and it has worked out great!  You get to do what you love and help others run successful businesses as well. What could be better?
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If you want to be a successful and profitable company, outsourcing will be inevitable.
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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.
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I tend to take the John Stossel view on the subject - despite what all of the politicans and the media say, outsourcing actually helps this country. It leads Americans to get more education and better jobs which pay higher wages. In the past ten years, the unemployment rate has actually gone DOWN, despite all of the "outsourcing" and the "taking of American jobs" that have been going on.
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Sort of.  There are benefits to outsourcing if the firm is particularly specialized in that and it's not a big deal to outsource this particular service.  An example of this could be payroll, where there are these monster payroll companies, such as PayChex that handle payroll for companies because payroll is an easy service to outside and this process shows how the division of labor has worked well.\n\nThere are other things in a business that you don't really want to outsource because you may be dealing with proprietary things that you don't want people to know about and it's a core part of the business.\n\nThese days with software companies and also things like call centers, we're not really seeing benefits from division of labor.  It's more than the average wage per capita varies per country.  So workers in other countries provide cheap labor and that's the reason for the outsourcing.  Often times, the foreign labor may not do as well of a job as a domestic worker, but it's worth it because the company saves money.
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Offshoring vs "Home-Sourcing" - which will lead to greater profits?
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try some banglore based KPO (knowledge process outsourcing company).
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Think in terms of your chapter you just read. What did it tell you about this issue?\n\n\nI would think that you could outsource to Singapore the following issues.\n\nHiring\nBenefits\nSafety\n\nThe reason is that you want people that are local that understand the Singapore laws relating to those areas. Each country has different rules and regulations on these areas.