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

[bof]

Jeffery Cann wrote:

>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
>
>  
>


The ironic thing is that now businesses are finding that it is cheaper 
to use Southeast Asian workers, like Vietnamese, and are off-shoring 
jobs from India to Vietnam.

Much to the dismay of the Indians, who view this as unfair.

BOF