Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India (computerworld.com)

ErichTheRed writes: A company called Cengage Learning now joins the Toys 'R Us, Disney and Southern California Edison IT offshoring club. Apparently, even IT workers in low-cost parts of the country are too expensive and their work is being sent to Cognizant, one of the largest H-1B visa users. As a final insult, the article describes a pretty humiliating termination process was used. Is it time to think about a professional organization before IT goes the way of manufacturing?

Comments

Re: short the stock

[saloomy]

Or... Great for the rest of us, their lower costs will fight margin compression for a time, but their competitors will follow suit to remain competitive and while 3 million Americans lose out on high wages, 300 million Americans gain in lower consumption costs (after all, we are a consumption economy), and India will gain 9 million jobs. For the American and Indian economies, this is a plus. The whole world gets more economic expansion as the cheapest possible costs are applied to work, and consumption increases. Don't let the lobbies and unions bogg the rest of consumers down. Just as steel workers fought to keep the cost of construction and cars up, the IT workers are fighting to keep the cost of software and IT up, at the expense of the rest of the economy.

Re:No

[sociocapitalist]

"We do all the design work in the US, because our 250+ Indian counterparts cannot design anything correctly. They code by trial and error. You'll never have a best-in-class product that way. We just give them menial coding tasks, and even then 1 US engineer is as productive as 3 in India. "

You mean like Japan awhile ago and China, more recently, for manufacturing?

Got news for you - they're not stupid and they can learn to design as well as we can.