LOL ... Denial
These self-procliamed experts drank the outsourcing koolaid and cannot fathom that they are often bad deals. There are so many gottchas in these things that many are realizing it is more trouble than...
View Articledefies logic
Outsourcing: hiring questionably-skilled workers from essentially slave labor providers, who have very little loyalty to the outsourcing company. And the outsourcing company ends up paying more than...
View ArticleNot just in IT
Outsourcing was the buzzword of the '90s in many industries, not just IT...though in fairness our industry set it as a standard way of doing business as our IT infrastructures were still in their...
View ArticleSorry, people are going off outsourcing due a need to cut costs?
That would suggest that initial perception that outsourcing would reduce costs was in error would it not?Or did I the clueless propeller-head misunderstand again?A blip? Not really the true market for...
View ArticleI think you are absolutely correct
The difference was not 'true' savings, but perceived savings. Short term (this month, this quarter, this year, 5 years) there is a definite savings. However, businesses are long-term endeavors...or...
View Articledamage is done
no entry level positions in IT (except offshore) where are the next generation of IT employees (those that can code I mean) going to come from ? offshore of course.
View ArticleOutsourcing, or the Art of Fraud?
OK, I have to say this in all honesty. Outsourcing is only good in theory, and partly in practice. I formerly worked for two outsource companies in the Netherlands. One was a hosting and ISP company...
View ArticleOutsourcing and the epidemic of contract jobs
Almost all jobs in IT have become short term contract jobs farmed out to third party recruitment agencies who pay peanuts with no bonuses, job security or benefits, with staff turn over almost on 3 or...
View ArticleOutsourcing Doesn't Make Sense Anymore
Outsourcing to save money doesn't make sense for one simple reason - replacing expensive people with cheap people provides only a one-time benefit in cost reduction (if you're lucky). What do you do in...
View ArticleHP are bad for this...
I don't work for HP but I know four people that do, only one of which has a direct contract the rest are outsourced, however the other three have been working at the same HP base in Bristol (UK) for...
View ArticleEverything Old is New Agian for Somebody
Pull out your textbooks on capitalism and you will see the same 2 patterns repeating over and over. 1) Shifting costs, be they material or labor, to lower cost substitutes is how the game is played....
View Articlequality over quantity
I'm very surprised not to hear that companies were disappointed with the quality of work done. Maybe my experience with outsourcing/offshoring is not typical, but I have seen nothing but bad quality of...
View ArticleAgreed
When I first saw the outsourcing craze in the 1990s, I saw the infancy of the problem that heavy industry was having. I sold chemical equipment to various heavy industries such as automobiles, paper,...
View ArticleAgree completely
Our organization's top leadership were sold on IT outsourcing by a company promising to save them lots of money. Then as the details of the contract were being nailed down all of the savings...
View ArticleThe Big Picture
When too many companies in a society outsource, there ends up being too many consumers in that society that are unemployed or under-employed. This leads to a reduction in sales, which leads to lost...
View ArticleAgreed, even if you ignore all the other stupidities
around outsourcing and the soon to be horrible effects on a domestic economy, it's a total failure in basic business terms.Foreign workers are cheaper than domestic ones, well okay, trueBut when you...
View ArticleSome of these deals are more expensive than the onshore.....
......skeleton crews that are left, and hard pressed, to clean up the messes that the offshore "talent" creates. There are some deals that demand regular bonuses, while onshore labor gets the shaft,...
View ArticleThe reverse effect from the Industrial Revolution?
Maybe this is just another period in our history of jobs or skills being replaced for either technology or money? When the Industrial Revolution began, it eliminated the need for companies to rely on...
View ArticleDancing Dollar Signs....
The entire "outsourcing" binge began with US corporations wanting to move their customer-service departments offshore to countries where English is a second language and pronounciation depends on the...
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