might be a good one for the Asian ping list...just thinkin’ aloud....
Nothing new here, jobs have been going to India as fast as they can be shipped there.
I’m sure there are a lot of good programmers in India, but as a percentage, it is much lower than the US. I can tell you that many of the Indian student I’ve seen cannot program their way out of a paper bag. But they are polite and speak good English. In any case, the cost savings is probably going to be largely an illusion.
To all the gleeful Indians,.... you’ll get yours. Just wait.
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Something that I can’t get over...
Government imposes high operating costs for a company that does business in the US. So the company decides to lower costs by moving their production off-shore.
Everyone is surprised.
The “solution?” Demonize and further increase the costs on those very same companies for trying to save on their operating costs in the first place.
Of course it’s silly to wonder exactly what might happen if the government were to set up a system that actually encourages businesses from moving to the US, rather than encouraging them to move away.
Mark
Management, in a stroke of pure genius, concludes that American workers just aren't very productive, and their solution to the problem they created is still more offshoring.
Offshoring to India has been going on for some time. The problem is that supply of competent IT people has not kept up with demand and costs are growing.