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Offshore Outsourcing Threatens Offshore Outsourcing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the giant-sucking-noise dept.

theodp writes "India offshore tech support companies may soon face job losses as U.S. companies such as IBM, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and PeopleSoft explore countries with even cheaper sources of technical labor, including Romania, Russia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Concerned that outsourcing might be outsourced from India in the near future, a Bangalore call center owner said 'It's hard to know where it will all end. Is there a country where people will work for free?'" There's a Newsforge story about the same subject.

6 of 859 comments (clear)

  1. Offshore outsourcing troubled? by mao+che+minh · · Score: 5, Funny
    Darn, and I was planning on using this year's tax return to fund my own Indian-based software company for a year. That could have paid for like, what, 8 Indian developers?

    Oh well. I can always fall back on that SCOX stock.....oh wait.....

  2. Captain Obvious Strikes Again! by Violet+Null · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's really hard to come up with anything else to add to this story. I mean, did anyone _not_ see this coming? Global companies will do what's cheapest...and there will always be someone who'll be cheaper than you.

    Now, when they start outsourcing management...that's when I'll be happy.

  3. There is a country where people work for free by LearningHard · · Score: 5, Funny

    Elbonia, lovely Elbonia

  4. Re:A country where people will work for free? by EvilNTUser · · Score: 4, Funny

    But GNU is Not USA!

    --
    My Sig: SEGV
  5. Why are you complaining by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is even better, now you can get even more developers for the same price, or the price for Indian developers will be cheaper. It's a win-win situation for you.

  6. Re:Guess this means. . . by davidhan · · Score: 5, Funny

    it kinda sucks for the Indian employees who are going to be out of work now.

    Maybe this will lead to an explosion of Indian blogging.