Response from: Hanns-Oskar Porr    ()

Offshore outsourcing has very little to do with the ecconomic problems we are facing right now. All in all, there are not even *that* many jobs that have or will be going overseas. Out of about 130 million jobs in the US, only about 900,000 are estimated to have gone oversears since 2000, and up to 3.3 million are projected to go overseas BY 2013! Compare that with 15 million jobs that will become available through retiring babyboomers leaving the workforce, and this is a drop in the bucket.

There are many reasons why jobs are slow to come back. One other one that is often overlooked is that health care costs have not only risen for individuals, but also for employers. An employee now costs $7000 to ensure -- enough reason not to hire more for some companies.

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Response from: nedludd    ()

I work for an international company based in the US that is almost completely distributed. I have worked for a British Defense contractor. When the American project manager goes overseas to manage a worldwide project for a European company, it's the same kind of outsourcing that is described so disdainfully by many. I currently am practicing that form of outsourcing now by waiting for a message from an Indian in Mumbai that he has completed a job for me in the US.
The point is that the door swings both ways. The US has had a history since WWII of going all over the world to perform work for other countries. Is it no suprise that other countries watch this and decide that this approach is a good thing.
It certainly explains why most of the countries I deal with have learned English, Science, Math, Computer Science, Project Management and the other people skill to do our jobs.
Maybe some persons should take the example we are being offered by other countries. A message that we delivered to them years ago.

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