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How India is Saving Capitalism
alphakappa writes "Salon goes onsite to Chennai (Madras) in India to investigate the whole offshoring phenemenon (free daypass) and comes up with an interesting series of stories. Katharine Mieszkowski starts with a company CollabNet which creates collaboration software for teams to work together on projects from locations all over the globe, and has centers in Brisbane (CA,US) and Chennai (India) - a company that would not exist if they didn't have access to engineers from India. She makes the case that in most cases, it is the necessity to survive, rather than greed that has fed the offshoring process. As Behlendorf from CollabNet puts it - 'We saved the jobs of the people who are employed in San Francisco by hiring people here [in India],' he says. 'I don't know that we would be around as a company if we hadn't done that. What was the right thing to do, morally?'"
Guess what happens when a country's economy starts to depend on annother country.
I should point out again that the goal of a corporation is to make money.
You know, this particular phrase is getting REALLY old.
They will not follow "moral" guidelines
That's funny. They used to. People in my parents' generation had jobs for decades. It was never even suggested that they would be laid off and outsourced. Of course, this was back when the boss actually gave a shit about something other than stuffing their pockets.
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
Could be, but what if the net gain is concentrated among the elite (at least in the outsourcing country) at the expense of the middle and working classes? Good enough for some, huh?