Wednesday, September 17, 2003

Will the last tech worker to leave please turn out the lights?" The outsourcing/offshoring debate heats up. Well, it's really not a debate because corporate America holds all the cards. Still, signs of intelligent life amongst the common folk are beginning to appear. Including a recent protest at a hotel in Silicon Valley's backyard hosting the 2003 Nearshore & Offshore Outsourcing Conference. Pertinent quote: "What's to keep contractors in India and Russia from creating competing businesses once we train them and lay off all the people here?" said [a protester]. "These companies that are sending work offshore don't realize that what they gain in short-term profits is going to cost us in the long term." Indeed. Except that thinking beyond the next quarter's earnings results is anathema to the current way of doing business. 4:48:45 PM    Oh yeah? []

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