Outsourcing Jobs to India

"Outsourcing" has become a bad word in the Unitedhere, corrections requested and sent to India, who
States. Many of our citizens have had to changeprograms them "overnight" and we have the changes
careers, because the types of jobs they used tofirst thing in the morning in the United States. The
hold are now being performed outside the countrymost important reason all outsourcing is done by
for a much lower cost to their former companies.American companies is simply cost. Indian workers
This has helped to fuel the political fires here and themake far less than Americans. Programmers here can
current administration has been charged with declaringstart out of college making over $50,000 annually. An
"war" on the middle class. In siding with theexperienced programmer in India will make the
corporations in favor of profits over citizens, theyequivalent of about $10,000 annually. The cost
have lost favor with the people. Personaldifference is less spectacular in the call center
pocketbooks and bank account sizes belie theworkers, but it's still substantial. Since business is
administration's assertion that the economy is strong.driven by the bottom line, many inconveniences are
The facts say the amount of people under thetolerated to gain this distinct financial advantage.
poverty level has grown, so the rich must be gettingA television show called "30 Days" told the story of
richer.an American programmer who lost his job to
America's loss is India's gain, when it comes to twooutsourcing and traveled to India to get it back.
types of commonly outsourced jobs - programmersThere he found these two industries, programming
and call center employees. The latter is familiar toand call center work, to be very prevalent. Many
most of us who have had to call in to our credit carddifferent Indian firms were contracting out to U.S.
company customer service, software supportcompanies. What really surprised him was the relative
centers, or catalog ordering numbers. It seems mostprofessional standing between the Indian workers
of these jobs have been outsourced to Indian firms.performing them. In India, it is the call center worker
Although the language barrier can sometimes posewho is more highly respected and highly paid! This
minor difficulties, there really is no reason anymoreparticular programmer ended up going for a call
why people all across the globe can't service thecenter job, where he had to prove how well he could
customers of any nation. Technology makes it allact and sound American!
possible today.So is outsourcing fair? And what will be the result of
Computer programming is another profession that isshipping all these jobs overseas? The U.S.
heavily outsourced to Indian firms. India has workedgovernment allowed this to happen; can they do
in computer programming. Many of the United States'anything to stop it? Should they? Is this, as some
largest companies outsource their programming jobspeople say, a selling out of the middle class? What do
to Indian firms with great success. This takes severalthe unemployment rates mean, if a large percentage
forms. Sometimes the U.S. company plans andof the employed are making substantially less than
administers the project closely. Other times thethey used to before their jobs were outsourced?
Indian firm takes on all the planning and projectThese are highly debated questions and hot political
management duties as well as the programming. Onetopics these days. Financial globalization is still in its
advantage is overall project speed. This is becauseinfancy and these questions will continue to challenge
the planning, review, system testing can be doneus to find the best solution for everyone.