What are the consequences of job outsourcing(offsoring) to other countries?

Question

It could be the anything about job outsouring but atleast 2500 words i have to write so please someone help me to find some good articles etc. as well as good information about it....thanks

Answer 1

The offshoring of high wage jobs from the United States to lower cost overseas locations is currently contributing to unprecedented levels of unemployment among American electrical, electronics and computer engineers. Offshoring also poses a very serious, long term challenge to the nation's leadership in technology and innovation, its economic prosperity, and its military and homeland security.
The H-1B and L-1 visa programs should be reformed and new trade agreements should incorporate such reforms. These temporary admissions programs for skilled workers are often used to import lower cost labor and can result in displacement of U.S. professionals, exploitation of foreign workers and accelerated offshoring of engineering and other high tech jobs.
A coordinated national strategy must be developed to sustain U.S. technological leadership and promote jobs creation in response to the concerted strategies being used by other countries to capture U.S. industries, jobs and markets.
Forrester Research has projected that as many as 3.3 million white-collar jobs of all kinds and over $136 billion in wages will be moved from the United States to lower cost, offshore locations by 2015. Although the initial emphasis has been on routine service and technical support positions, the trend is expanding to include more complex engineering and design services. It is abundantly clear that many of the jobs being sent offshore were formerly held by U.S. engineers, computer scientists and other information technology professionals.
Offshore outsourcing can also result in intellectual property and sensitive personal data exports, including medical and credit information. And because U.S. laws that protect information and safeguard privacy do not have extraterritorial application, the U.S. government, corporations and citizens will become increasingly dependent on foreign laws to protect their interests. The risk posed to these interests by individuals and organizations who would take advantage of weak laws, loopholes and limited access to enforcement is not insignificant.
http://www.newwork.com/Pages/Opinion/Raynor/Outsourcing%20Consequences.html
http://www.jayreding.com/archives/2003/07/31/the-outsourcing-backlash/
http://www.transitionsabroad.com/publications/magazine/0509/living_and_working_abroad.shtml

Answer 2

Outscouring is done because the manufacturer or corporation labor costs are becoming competitive versus other companies. A lot of low skilled assembly work goes to China, Vietnam, India. Some of the higher end assembly automotive jobs go to Mexico, Southeastern Untied States because of the labor costs are cheaper. Outsoucring is good for the consumer because the cost of the product is often cheaper because domestic labor in developed countries is ofter higher. Also, the a vast majority of jobs is can never be outscoured like nurses, truck-drivers, mechanics, carpenters, accountants, lawyers. Those jobs are needed for the local economy. The jobs being outsourced are jobs. One, the labor costs are too high to be competitive with other domestic, or foreign competitors. Second, lack of low skilled assembly workers available to those jobs will drive them overseas. Third, some jobs are overseas because some service sectors call services are needed 24 hours a day. Politics may blow smoke about it but in reality outscouring is good for the majority of workers, but its give a nasty in the taste in the mouth of the worker been their 20 years, and then find out he or she laid off has to get another job. Its has its pitfalls for companies to outscoure the populists politicians will claim corporations are looting the mother country, but don't be fooled business outsource to saver the consumer costs.

Answer 3

Loss of jobs here. Loss of human dignity for earning a wage. Need for valued replacement activity.

Answer 4

offshoring is a tool for gaining competitive edge.e.g. if you are selling shoes and find a cheaper source of leather, you could make your shoes cheaper and in that way be more competitive.