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Outsourcing: bad for India, good for US
The consensus that outsourcing is bad for America is wrong.
By: Romy Misra
Issue date: 10/6/08 Section: Opinion
The IT outsourcing done by the multinational companies in the U.S. is not much different. Many of the IT jobs are given to engineering graduates from any discipline, and they are trained for a maximum of three months. After the training period, they are IT engineers, but they probably graduated as mechanical engineers. If you can become an IT engineer in three months, even with a different background, you are not involved in high quality work.
Sabita Acharaya, an industrial engineering graduate student, worked for an IT outsourcing firm in India before coming to Texas A&M.
"The pay is definitely not in proportion to the amount of work they make you do," Acharaya said. "The project I was on had very little growth and the perks were too few."
Outsourcing helps nations mired in poverty by lifting the economy, but whether it does so in the best possible way is questionable. Meanwhile, in the U.S. consumers benefit from low costs, higher standards and timeliness at a developing economy's expense.
Sabita Acharaya, an industrial engineering graduate student, worked for an IT outsourcing firm in India before coming to Texas A&M.
"The pay is definitely not in proportion to the amount of work they make you do," Acharaya said. "The project I was on had very little growth and the perks were too few."
Outsourcing helps nations mired in poverty by lifting the economy, but whether it does so in the best possible way is questionable. Meanwhile, in the U.S. consumers benefit from low costs, higher standards and timeliness at a developing economy's expense.
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