The technically correct word to use when companies shift jobs performed in the U.S. to another, presumably low-wage country, is "off-shoring" not "out-sourcing"---Most businesses out-source SOME of their daily business functions, such as accounting, temps, material fabricaton, etc. They do this because doing it "in-house" is not cost efficient. Sending a job currently performed by someone here and transferring it to, say, India would be off-shoring. This graph located HERE and linked from HERE gives the positives and negatives of off-shoring. However, more prominence is given to the positives, so beware of that when viewing...
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