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I'd like to point out that the story as posted edited out the attribution.

Editors: Please don't remove quotation marks where they are necessary because that effectively results in plagiarism. The words in quotes are not mine. They belong to the reporter.

Also, the reference to the interview with the Chairman of Satyam - an Indian outsourcer that has set up shop in Toronto - was removed. Knowing that Slashdotters often don't read the source articles, I included that detail as an incentive for people to read what the leader of a large outsourcing company has to say about this politicized business practice.

Original post follows:

Metro International newspapers Toronto edition reports that 'more Indian companies are opening back doors into the United States by setting up shop in Canada.' The issue of outsourcing, offshoring and nearshoring has become a hot issue, with the 2004 presidential election less than a week away. Candidate John Kerry has said he will close the tax loophole that makes it advantageous to outsource call centers. The article includes an interview with Ramalinga Raju, chairman of Satyam Computer Services Ltd., India's fourth-largest computer services firm.

If I pay one of my specialists extra because I think he outperforms the rest, I have to pay all specialists extra. Equal rights stuff. This effectively means that you basically can't reward people individually. You are always rewarding a group of people. Effectively this leads to job-titles you only find in Dilbert, because this gives you the possibility to reward individuals who care, work overtime when needed or just perform in an extraordinary way (like not laughing at a customer when he says that his core business runs on windows and such...).

If not for the other things, this wouldnt be half bad if it were executed properly and if you didnt have the runaround you described(Retitling) - then I'd not mind seeing this in the States. This would make people think twice about hiring someone.

And the best of them .... as an employer I have to pay the salary of my workers if they get ill. And that is no problem. But I also have to keep on paying them, even if they can't work because of own decisions. And that can last two complete years. So, if one of those guys crashes his car with 200 km/h during holidays, I end up paying for his treatment, including two years of salary.... think about Skiing, Bungeejumping, etc... awww.

Well, this one you deserve, since this one gives the right benefits to the right side(keeps you from going evil). Especially with all those Enron/WorldCom scandals, those executive parachutes would be shot down by the workers who got shafted before the creditors get a bite.

It just makes you (and us) outsource everything to places where the law is a bit more normal.

I guess youlike slave labor and/or like working for them. No thanks, I'll choose saner companies (yes, that I stands for International, but they dont pride themselves in it)service over some company who gloats about sends off work to these bozos. And if no job is god given, it's going to take a real axe to the board room to stop the insanity you suggest. Yes, a real axe, and yes, Virginia, heads will roll, with careers following suit.

I'm sorry, but I'm not familiar with the term "outsourcing." Perhaps you mean rightsourcing.

a plug for Hexaware. Why just hexaware? There are other SEI CMMi5 companies like vMoksha, Infosys and Satyam.
I noticed the article is not about outsourcing - its more about outsourcing to India. But now the US cos are employing the services of other global service providers from countries like Romania, Russia, China and Phillipines.
Also, why has ONLY software outsourcing attracted so much attention? Right from shoes to garments to even toys, and other manufacturing industries - components are outsourced. I guess the IT boom cast a brief vision of a great lifestyle..... and then went bust - and outsourcing is being blamed for the boom not booming.
One must not forget that even the citizens of the US were once outsourced....

I have experienced first hand internet access policies based on time of the day. When i was working at a CMM Level 5 company, we were not allowed to surf during office hours ( 9 AM to 6 PM ) and the proxy itself was open between 7 AM to 7 PM weekdays.

Just to quote an example: When Microsoft was serious about Office licenses in a certain CMM Level 5 company - The company actually tried to move towards OpenOffice. Complete MS Office install on my workstation was sacrificed to open office.

The next generation of the product I'm working on will be done by Satyam Computer Services...

Offshore development houses like Cognizant, Satyam Computer Services, and Wipro Technology have been posting 20%+ YOY growth since at least the mid-nineties and they're all doing embedded stuff. In his recent book ("Straight from the Gut"), Jack Welch admits that although GE built and abandoned manufacturing plants in India (for Plastics, Lighting, and Aircraft Engines, I believe), they're still growing their software development center there.