Study Claims Offshoring Doesn't Cost US Jobs

SwashbucklingCowboy writes "Infoworld has an article up about a survey by the Software & Information Industry Association claiming that offshoring doesn't cost American jobs. The article quotes the executive director of the SIIA as saying, '[Offshoring] was used almost entirely as a form of expansion, not as a replacement.' Well, if a job is created elsewhere that could have been created in the US, isn't that a job lost?"

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Re:who's saying that?

[hackstraw]

Competition makes everyone better off - just look at the progress for the last century and it becomes abundantly clear.

The problem is that for me to be "competative" to a multi-national corporation as a worker I must forgo the progress of the last century and my lifetime.

I'm more "competitive" when I demand lower wages, lower my standard of living, lower my need for healthcare, lower my need for a clean environment, lower my expectations to talk with someone who actually knows english, etc, etc.

Unfortunately, there is no right answer here. Outsourcing looks great on paper for the bottom line. It seems to be failing for customer support, helpdesks, and call centers because even if you get a hold of a person that speaks good english and can help you with your problem, at least here in the USA, I still feel cheated for some reason, and the liklihood that you get a person that can speak good english and help you with your problem is unlikely at best.

Manufacturing simply makes sense for many people. It means cheaper goods for us as consumers and it moves a ton of the nastyness of manufacturing out of our back yard. None of the pollution, or any of that jazz.

I personally have more issues with the hiring of illegals here in the us than outsourcing.