i work for a big company that is moving our accounts payable to India. It isn’t like the AP people made a lot of money in the first place. I just can’t imagine there is THAT much benefit in the bigger picture.
I sometimes have to contact Hewlet Packard - for a while I was wondering if the bay area was so overrun with Mexicans that HP couldn’t hire any “white” people and then discovered all these people I was talking to are in Mexico. At least they’re not trying to dodge the Border Patrol.
Yeah, people who owe money are really going to want to pay up when they hear “Randy” from Mumbai pestering them about their past-due bill. Must be counting on the irritation factor to make past-dues pay up rather than hearing from “Randy” again.
My job as a hospital medical transcriptionist was off-shored to India almost 4 years ago. Via Dictaphone/Nuance, the work of the Indian MTs has to go through several revisions in order to be readable, so the company in the long run is probably paying them as much as they pay American MTs (4 cents/edited line), but they work 6 days a week/50 hours with no medical benefits since they have universal health care, no 401k, no family medical leave, etc.
In the long run, we will end up a third world country in the next 10 years, thanks to NAFTA. TPTB do not care about us as they are too busy chasing after the 2 billion people living in China and India to buy their products. Well, good luck with that when their economies come crashing down.