Friday, 5 March 2010
Outsourcing
Outsourcing is when companies move part of their operation to another country in order to get cheaper labor. This benefits the company and the people in the place they moved part of their business to. However, it does not help the people who used to have that job. An example of outsourcing that was in the lecture was Dell moving part of their business to India. Today, more and more companies are outsourcing in order to save money. So now if you call for help about your computer or some other merchandise, you are most likely talking to someone in a different country somewhere around the world. This relates to the world being "flat" because now some companies are all over the world or have part of their companies in different countries. This helps to interconnect our world and make it "flat".
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I am not sure whether or not I agree with this concept. I feel like this could be easily debated. It has many ups and many downs. Some of the downs being it could be unfair to the workers in other countries because they are doing the same amount of work but for less. It also takes away from the amount of jobs in America. Some of the positives being though, that it makes the product cheaper and it helps out the companies. The debate is basically based on who's standards to go by, the country that the company is from, or the country that the workers are from.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Miranda, like anything it has its pros and cons. The pros being that they get the work done for cheaper, a con being that the workers are being abused and used like a tool, for mininum pay. This being said most people would rather hire an illegal alien for dirt cheap then pay someone to do the same job for a higher price.
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