Offshoring Not 100% Bad?

I have to agree with Anand's statement that “not everyone in India is an illitrate person coding for peanuts.“ In a project I am currently involved in, we have a dev from India who just happens to be one of the best (if not the best) experts on the jacked up PowerPoint object model. He has been working magic in ways that the American devs I have worked with on this same sort of thing could only dream.

[1] Offshoring. Anand M. http://www.dotnetindia.com/2003/12/offshoring.html

3 Comments

  • Hmmm...I wonder why I come across so many bad Powerpoint presentations in India..or is it a global phenomenon? :-)

  • “not everyone in India is an illitrate person coding for peanuts".



    That could be true but offshoring is all about paying peanuts for hard labour. The issue has nothing to do with the Indians but with the companies that are offshoring and the overall effect of that action on the white collar job market back home. Other Asian countries have been targets for offshore activities too and for as long as companies feel that costs can be cut (not to benefit consumers by any measure), they will do it at the first chance.



    Talk about the free market, supply and demand and offshoring doesn't sound strange at all. Unfair maybe, but what's fair?

  • That was an interesting article. No matter what a company chooses to do with their business, whether offshore outsourcing is right or wrong is a question that will be debatable as long as outsourcing is a continued practice.

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