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To play Devil?s advocate ? and it?s always a good idea to see the situation through the other person?s eyes:
A: ?The results of offshoring have been known for some time: it works best for low priority, repetitive, standard work. This is no consolation to the people who lose their jobs, but it does put a rational limit on offshoring.?
F: That was then: This is now. Remember how Hong Kong used to be laughed at because they only produced cheap plastic toys? Now East Asia manufacturers for the entire world. Whoever does the grunt work today, whether writing software or making TV?s, will be doing the high-value work tomorrow.
A: ?And R&D is not appropriately subject to outsourcing. For one thing a primary function of R&D is developing ideas of value to company profits. Of course you want the most detailed knowledge of your valuable idea to be thousands of miles away, in the hands of someone you never met who is working for a different company.?
F: Oh, but this is the way it?s worked for years. SAP employs people in the US. IBM employs people in Switzerland. How is San Francisco farther from Bangalore than it is from Z?rich? Executives couldn?t care less where the worker ants are located. If they want the figures, they get some poor middle manager to take the red-eye from wherever. - Posted by: furl12@... Posted on: 06/16/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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