Outsourcing = Greedy Employees?

Filed in archive Outsourcing Issues on March 12, 2007

This article certainly caught my eye.

According to the said article, outsourcing in India has a great demand which leads to doing everything possible to hire outsourcing employees suitable for these jobs. Aside from that, the article also explained the way outsourcing employees grow in their jobs.

Here is an interesting excerpt from the said piece:
Today, liberal arts graduates can easily command a starting salary of 12,500 rupees ($360). Within a year to 18 months, they will become supervisors. In three years they would be earning about 25,000 rupees, the same as a university professor in India with a doctorate and 10 years experience. But no one sticks around in transaction processing jobs. Each person who leaves, either to join another firm or to pursue higher studies.

This trend does not necessarily mean a "greedy" workforce. Instead, it shows the growing turnover rate brought about by growing number of career opportunities available for these employees. Developing a way to keep employees for a longer period of time would be able to work as well as in ensuring that there are available employees which could take the place of resigned ones.

Change is inevitable and this certainly applies in the outsourcing sector.