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Why Outsource When Workers are Willing to Telecommute?

Posted by Cliff on Friday July 25, 2003 @07:32AM from the is-cheaper-code-always-better? dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "Corporations and management resisted telecommuting for years, now jobs flow to distant nations. Did telecommuting become acceptable because of the greater distance? Because some form of on-site management persists? Because labor laws are favorable? Because a well paid middle class is a political threat? Is it really as simple as money? I'll work cheaper if I can choose where I live and work. Must I leave my country to do so?"

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True by paranode · 2003-07-25 07:35 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I'll work cheaper if I can choose where I live and work. Must I leave my country to do so?
Yes. So sorry to see you leave! More jobs for me!!
Re:It's simple: money by ehiris · 2003-07-25 07:44 · Score: 0, Flamebait

They don't pay the slaves more but the slavedrivers are usually paid the same as in the US.
Re:It's simple: money by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-25 08:06 · Score: 0, Flamebait

"Oliver Wendell Jones" Hmm.. your name sounds like one from 18th century slave trader communities...
Racist pig!
The answer is simple... by HBI · 2003-07-25 08:34 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Provoke an Indo-Pakistani war. The problem will be solved instantly - US companies will get a huge scare when communications are cut off and the nukes start flying. Outsourcing isn't so appealing at that point.

Seriously, it's going to happen - we all know it, the peace there is not going to last forever. It would be better for it to happen now before the economic dislocation in the US is too great.

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