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To: Non-Sequitur
No, you have posted a non-sequitur. There's plenty of evidence that outsourcing to lower-wage regions does not always reap the claimed benefit of higher profits - in fact, there are plenty of stories of companies that have outsourced only to find out that the result is lower quality, loss of control, less ability to respond quickly to the changing demands of the marketplace, and consequently lower profits. My suggestions, if followed, would reduce the differential in cost of doing business between the US and offshore, which would magnify the importance of factors such as the ones that I mention here. And, that would lead to less offshoring and greater US job retention and creation.
40 posted on 12/15/2003 11:14:11 AM PST by The Electrician
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To: The Electrician
There's plenty of evidence that outsourcing to lower-wage regions does not always reap the claimed benefit of higher profits - in fact, there are plenty of stories of companies that have outsourced only to find out that the result is lower quality, loss of control, less ability to respond quickly to the changing demands of the marketplace, and consequently lower profits.

Sure there is, but that hasn't stopped more and more companies from outsorcing. Since corporate America is focused only on the short term financial statemtent rather then the long term returns then they will continue to go where the work can be done cheaper, regardless of whether it is done better.

41 posted on 12/15/2003 11:18:51 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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