The New Outsourcing Destination: El Salvador

Filed in archive Outsourcing News on August 3, 2006

There is a new country joining the outsourcing industry. The country? El Salvador

El Salvador was once considered as one of the most deregulated economies in Central America because of their civil war which lasted for 14 years. The end of this war paved the way for the country to improve its economic investments one of which is the outsourcing industry.

Shifting from the traditional hiring of local people to work for these outsourcing companies, El Salvador operates with a new alternative. The government's plan dubbed as "Meet Your Roots" looks for children who are Salvadorans and are born in the US and Canada to live and work temporarily in the said country.

There were several goals mentioned for the said program. One is to help the outsourcing industry by hiring people who are knowledgeable of the English language. The second goal mentioned was to strengthen the ties and identity of these people who would go back to their home country.