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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. 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.

  2. 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.