No commentary on Trump here, but I can say for certain - as an IT executive - that outsourcing helps provide job security for my full-timers. There is always a natural ebb and flow in the workload. If I hired domestic FTEs for the “flow,” when it came time for the ebb, I would have to start laying people off. There is no tenure in IT. I would keep the best performers, whether if they had been there 10 months or 10 years. By maintaining an investment in offshore resources, I can cut that contracting expense painlessly without touching my FTEs. They key is to use the offshore resources only to handle the “flow” until such time that it is clear it is becoming an ongoing operational expense, then switch to domestic FTEs. The majority of your organization should be FTEs.
Additionally, the lower cost of the offshore resources makes it easier to handle the “flow.” Whenever I add offshore temporarily, I attach them to FTEs who gain valuable team leadership experience.
Truly all offshoring is NOT bad, when it is done right. I’m absolutely certain that some people on FR who have never managed a large IT organization will not understand this, though. Flame on.
Traitors like you should be outsourced.
Funny, I outsourced tasks to other American companies employing Americans using a competitive bidding process.
It very often is not done that way.
Informative posting. Thanks.
Truly all offshoring is NOT bad, when it is done right. I’m absolutely certain that some people on FR who have never managed a large IT organization will not understand this, though. Flame on.
The trouble is that there's no incentive to use it as anything aside from (fraudulent) citizen replacement. Never mind that it tends to cut out the entry points for new US talent (seeing the dimming prospects for anything stable).