You people are all thinking of pay cuts and job losses but what about the business
gains that are made from these job offshoring.That will definitely benefit the outsourcing
company in the long run and will develop more value added jobs.but one thing is for sure
this job churn is painful. It will take few years to realise the benefit of transferring jobs.
So be optimistic
Glenn Berry wrote:
> Except of course for the terrible impact that all these companies
> transferring millions of units of home currency overseas has, oh yeah and
> the people who are now unemployed in the home country that can no longer
> afford the services of the offshoring company, it's quite possibly the most
> short sighted thing I've ever seen.
>
> I am surprised that governments aren't trying to do something to prevent it.
>
> It is somewhat difficult to see what they could do though.
>
> Glenn Berry
> Senior DBA
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dave Annis
> > [mailto:oracledba-ezmlmshield-x60822518.[Email address protected]
> > Sent: 28 June 2004 20:18
> > To: LazyDBA Discussion
> > Subject: RE: SIDEBAR: IT'S BEEN A TERRIBLE WORKING DAY ....
> >
> >
> > This isn't really that different than what happened on the
> > late-80's's when everybody was taking pay cuts and lay-offs.
> > The employers that stuck it out with their employees and
> > treated them well gained some degree of loyalty and are doing
> > better today. The ones that jumped on the bandwagon and
> > screwed their employees suffered the brain drain and trust
> > issues. These businesses became less self-reliant and
> > therefore vulnerable.
> >
> > History is repeating itself! After a period of time this
> > off-shore trend will show it's ugly side (duh, people
> > thousands of miles way that have no vested interest in the
> > job at hand; that don't understand the business) In the
> > future These same company's will be scrambling for "on-site",
> > or at least domestic help and will suffer because of the
> > backtracking they will have to do. The advantage will be the
> > ones the "stayed the course".
> >
> > It's just history repeating itself with a dash of greed.
> >
> > My two cents
> >
> > Dave.
> >
> >
>
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