Outsourcing: Still Viewed as a Threat

Filed in archive Outsourcing Issues on November 29, 2006

I thought that viewing outsourcing as a threat to a country's economy is a thing of the past. It seems like my assumption is wrong.

According to the survey result done in UK, 82% of the respondent remarked that there have been enough jobs being outsourced and that should be the end of this outsourcing movement. In regards to which countries are most "threatening" in the country, here are the survey results:

China - 76%
India - 48%
US - 34%
Japan - 32%

If you would look at it closely, the survey results somehow shows the expectation that UK has in China's growing outsourcing industry. Though that is the case, it came as a surprise for me that high-developed countries are still threatened by outsourcing.