[CLUE-Talk] Cringley on 'outsourcing' IT jobs to India

[Jeffery Cann]

Hadn't exactly thought of it like this:

"If a U.S. employer said out loud, "Gosh, we have a lot of 50-something 
engineers who are going to kill us with their retirement benefits so we'd 
better get rid of a few thousand," they would be violating a long list of 
labor and civil rights laws. But if they say, "Our cost of doing business in 
the U.S. is too high, so we'll be moving a few thousand jobs to India," 
that's just fine -- even though it means exactly the same thing. "

Bobby goes on to discuss how moving jobs to IT won't solve the real problems - 
'my head count is bigger than yours'.  

I agree:

+ http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030807.html

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