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BusinessWeek on Outsourcing

Posted by michael on from the learning-hindi dept.

hotsauce writes "BusinessWeek has a couple of stories on the outsourcing of white collar jobs to India. One is a cover story on GE's fundamental research lab in Bangalore where scientists work on everything from the aerodynamics of turbines to plastics' molecular structure. The other is commentary on "America's worst-kept secret", and the effects of the upcoming elections on it."

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  1. India Colonizes Cyberspace while US colonizes Iraq by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "India has always had brilliant, educated people," says tech-trend forecaster Paul Saffo of the Institute for the Future in Menlo Park, Calif. "Now Indians are taking the lead in colonizing cyberspace."

    And with Americans busy colonizing Iraq, I am sure the Indians have a cakewalk colonizing cyberspace ...

  2. What do you expect. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I came across a fatuous sig on a post the other day saying "Socialism is Evil", liking to a page explaining why a free market is the best, that price is the only true indicator of market performance, and that socialism is fundamentally flawed.

    Okay, ignoring the socialism angle. The free market is one of the holy trinity of US religion, and above mentiones article really brings this home. The US has been ramming free market economy, and globalisation down the throats of the rest of the world for years. In enforcing free-trade the World Trade organisation has making small businesses bankrupt in favour of big corporate economies of scale. We're forces to accept US GM foods that we don't want, because to label them GM is anti-competative.

    Yet now, the US is feeling the effects of this. Jobs are dissappearing for economic reasons (it's cheaper). And all of a sudden people don't like it. Well, my heart bleeds for you. Taste your own medicine, and see how you like it. Smarts a bit doesnt it.

    So I suggest it's time for the US to change it's ways. Only this time try giving a damn about the people you're trampling all over. Becasue sooner or later you're bound to be on the receiving end.

    But, for now all I have to say is "Haha".

  3. PhD's from India are NOT the same as a U.S. PhD by bondjamesbond · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Really. They call themselves PhD's, but they are not the same as someone who has a PhD from Purdue, MIT, etc... Schools in third world countries do NOT educate with the same intensity as modern countries (US, UK, EU). Give me a Swiss/German/US PhD to an Indian/Pakistani "PhD" any day. 'Nuff said.

    1. Re:PhD's from India are NOT the same as a U.S. PhD by bondjamesbond · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Yes, GE et al are exporting their mundane work to India. And you mean to tell me that a country that aborts their female babies and is rife with Brahman corruption can really "get their act together"????

    2. Re:PhD's from India are NOT the same as a U.S. PhD by Lord+Apathy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      I think india would be better feeding the starving masses of people it has than going to the moon.

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      Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification

  4. Don't forget Enron, Worldcom, Tyco by randall_burns · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Leaders in US worker replacement haven't always fared especially well. The reason is that the MBA's and attorneys that are the figureheads of corporate America frequently don't properly figure in the real security risks involved here. For example, at least $3 Billion of the 12 Billion stolen from Enron's shareholders involved losses in India-which "coincidentally" was the source of the lion's share of the Enron IT staff.