Many will loss jobs in outsourcing, are you not alarmed?

[rowenahere]

I fear that in the trend of outsourcing many will loss their jobs.
I, myself who is from Asia, where white collar jobs like working on software programs, engineering projects, web developing related jobs are sent. Is there any drawback from this practice? Instead, that many citizens of U.S. for example would take advantage of the wages, the offshore self-employed individuals are enjoying these. I could imagine unions of laborers complaining about these lost job positions, which I are believed high paying jobs. Anyway, United States is a rich country where milk and honey are abundant and greener pastures could be found. Yet, I am just worried of a number of employees who are supposed to take advantage of what the contracted offline residents are enjoying. I wonder if these freelancers really are getting rich from minimal offers of one dollar or 3 dollars minimum per highly tasking job.

[troshus]

because many white-collar and manufacturing jobs are being outsourced to overseas workers, while the U.S. is becoming more and more of a service economy.

While America may appear to be a land flowing with milk and honey, please realize that things cost more here, so anyone working in a country with a lower cost of living can stretch every $1 they are getting much further than an American can.

Many Americans have been forced to work two, or even three, jobs just to keep their families fed and housed. Inthe meantime, the corporations which are outsourcing jobs are making more money than ever.

[fadyllan]

I read about this before. The Americans are worried because most big companies are outsourcing their jobs to off shores. And instead of hiring their own citizens, they prefer to hire from countries like India and such coz they can pay less. Can we blame those corporations? I mean, its business. You try to save the cost as much as you can. Still, what about their duty to their own country, right? Hmm..

[rowenahere]

Originally Posted by fadyllan

I read about this before. The Americans are worried because most big companies are outsourcing their jobs to off shores. And instead of hiring their own citizens, they prefer to hire from countries like India and such coz they can pay less. Can we blame those corporations? I mean, its business. You try to save the cost as much as you can. Still, what about their duty to their own country, right? Hmm..

Precisely! Business-minded people think about the profits. If there is cost cutting, surely the gains are greater. I understood how practical-minded and profit conscious are some of the corporations. They would hire offshore freelancers for their services in exchange to small amounts.

Originally Posted by troshus

because many white-collar and manufacturing jobs are being outsourced to overseas workers, while the U.S. is becoming more and more of a service economy.

While America may appear to be a land flowing with milk and honey, please realize that things cost more here, so anyone working in a country with a lower cost of living can stretch every $1 they are getting much further than an American can.

Many Americans have been forced to work two, or even three, jobs just to keep their families fed and housed. Inthe meantime, the corporations which are outsourcing jobs are making more money than ever.

Yes! The corporations which employ offshore freelancers do become richer while many Americans are forced to look for other side jobs in order to feed a number of mouths. Well, U.S. is a rich country. Yet, the drawbacks to its economy is still apparent to few Americans.

[rowenahere]

While America may appear to be a land flowing with milk and honey, please realize that things cost more here, so anyone working in a country with a lower cost of living can stretch every $1 they are getting much further than an American can. Many Americans have been forced to work two, or even three, jobs just to keep their families fed and housed. Inthe meantime, the corporations which are outsourcing jobs are making more money than ever.

My uncle in Florida is also complaining about the high cost of living in the U.S. These Americans are just becoming practical. They rather prefer to do outsourcing, rather than hire their co-citizen to do the intended jobs, which would cost them a bit higher.

I understand also that there are Americans who are forced to work with three jobs. Of course, who gets richer is the corporation. The contracted freelancers only get good amount but is still insufficient to become their main source of income.

The Americans are worried because most big companies are outsourcing their jobs to off shores. And instead of hiring their own citizens, they prefer to hire from countries like India and such coz they can pay less. Can we blame those corporations? I mean, its business. You try to save the cost as much as you can. Still, what about their duty to their own country, right? Hmm..

I believe that only a fraction of the entire American populations is worried about the trend of outsourcing. However, in decades to come the ratio of the Americans who are losing their jobs and the number of corporations which prevalently practiced outsourcing might create big impact to the U.S. economy.

Business is business. It is usually after more profits. Outsourcing is a good cost cutting technique and it saves some thousands of dollars. I could blame no one – for survival purpose and for fame and glory, outsourcing or any means to earn some fortune become preferable.

[astros99]

To me, the biggest job lost will be programmers, and web designers. Most of the jobs on the freelancing websites are for them. So if companies keep on seeing that they can get cheaper rates, then they will probably continue to outsource these projects. If you have a job that you can't tell someone how to do your project over a computer, then your pretty safe.

[fadyllan]

Yeah, programmers and web designers are more likely to be in trouble. Unless you're willing to get under paid in your own country. But for third world countries, hey, good news for them. Oh, telephonist too!

[rowenahere]

Originally Posted by fadyllan

Yeah, programmers and web designers are more likely to be in trouble. Unless you're willing to get under paid in your own country. But for third world countries, hey, good news for them. Oh, telephonist too!

Precisely! fadyllan. At least with such new business trend, third world countries like the Philippines, India, etc would be given their chance to shine. However, the compensation is not yet that too attractive. For example, a client would pay a Filipino $30, its equivalent value is 1,500pesos - this monetary value only has the tendency to escalate if that citizen of a third world country is industrious and could really finish outsourced projects earlier than the due time and if s/he always won the bids.

There are influential factors for someone to really get successful in any outsourcing works.

Originally Posted by astros99

To me, the biggest job lost will be programmers, and web designers. Most of the jobs on the freelancing websites are for them. So if companies keep on seeing that they can get cheaper rates, then they will probably continue to outsource these projects. If you have a job that you can't tell someone how to do your project over a computer, then your pretty safe.

Yes! Astros99 you pointed that out! Many companies would really look after cheaper costs, which could meet the standards and excellent quality of anticipated work output.

[astros99]

Yeah, this is just another example of how foreign countries are getting there opportunity. I live in America, and I know that most of the computer engineering jobs are going to people over seas right now, because the salary they would want is much cheaper, and it's saving alot of money. Many of the other engineering jobs are going overseas. A dollar in America is not much, but it can be worth alot in other countries. That reason is one of the biggest reasons that the foreign people are getting more jobs.

[humpty]

well, if you're american, perhaps you should start planning ahead and make good use of your higher currency dollars to start something elsewhere

if you're not american, unless your dollar currency is higher, you've got nothing but advantages of earning american dollars which, once converted, can value much more in your currency

it's a good thing i'm not american hehehehhee