IT jobs contracted from far and wide

[dArKeR]

North American companies are saving money by 'offshoring,' JOHN SAUNDERS writes

Having grown used to buying cars from Japan and South Korea and just about any imaginable consumer item from China, North Americans who work in computer-related fields are seeing some of their own jobs go to faraway places, notably India.

This has caused political rumblings in the United States but not yet in Canada, partly because Canada is at the top end of a cheap-labour pipe draining work from the world's biggest economy.

For the moment, Canada may be siphoning off as much from the United States as it loses to places such as India, where eager computer science graduates are available at a fraction of a Canadian salary.

The process has a name, offshoring, and two categories, nearshoring and farshoring. From the American point of view, anything beyond U.S. borders is offshore, but some locales, chiefly Canada and Ireland, are pitched to cautious clients as nearshore.

Others are farshore - India, China, the Philippines, Russia, even the beach-fringed island of Mauritius.

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[notadmblnd]

1. And don't forget "Best Shore"...

to places like Maylasia and singapore

[Maple]

2. Excuse me??

Canada has lost car plants to the US and Mexico for at least 10 years.

[FDRrocks]

3. It's the free market at work!

Swear to god, I don't care what the ends are, the means involve subjecting the populous of America, which MADE this country great, to third world conditions.

The sad part is the the more asshole companies that do this for the bottom line, the more decent companies that want to employ AMERICANS for AMERICAN work have to outsource to keep competitive.

It's just crap. Maybe it wouldn't be such crap if we hadn't spent much of the last century asserting our economic dominance, along with other industrial nations, only to outsource our economic system for cheap prices to the poorer countries

[dArKeR]

4. What happens when citizens don't want to play the game to compete,

'Capitalism', against all the world's countries corporations' who are making 1 thing and selling it for the lowest price possible? What if cultures just want to live a peaceful subsistance life that they've done for hundreds of years?