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From ComputerWorld:
"All that special treatment that IT people were getting [before Y2k and Web-enabling] just stopped -- the high pay raises, the special bonuses," Van De Voort explains. "Many employers didn't even bother to explain it, and [employees] didn't squeal," for fear that their jobs might be outsourced to lower-paid workers. Nearly half (48%) of all respondents said that their organizations outsource work.
One project manager at a prominent East Coast financial company knows that fear. "During Y2k, the company was lucky to get any [new IT hires]. When they found somebody who knew what they were doing, they treated them with respect and made them part of the team." Now the sentiment toward IT employees has changed. "Senior management says, 'If you don't like the work, we'll get somebody in India to do it.' The computer people are seen more as part of the technology rather than part of the human resource," says the project manager, who asked not to be named.
The good news is the trend toward offshoring has slowed a bit as companies have become more aware of the quality of work and technical support they receive from overseas workers, says Van De Voort. "The whole offshoring dynamic feels a little less pressing than a year ago. But I think domestic outsourcing will continue to be a factor," he says.
'nuff said.
posted by Bob Reselman at 10:44 PM
1 Comments:
Outsourcing was always a problem, or a good thing. We've always outsourced when someone could do it better and cheaper. Look at the automobile market. We've outsourced cars for sometime now because other countries are able to produce good replacements, if not sometimes better, for cheapter. We try to counter that with import taxes and things but Toyota has proved that even with the heavy taxes it can outsell American cars. I don't know what we can do to fix this.
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