Sunday, January 22, 2006

Outsourcing World

This was an interesting podcast talking about the business behind outsourcing. For all the talk about how efficient it is to outsource "information workers", when the reporter is point blank asked if outsourcing his job would be effective, he dodges around and comes to the conclusion that "no it wouldn't be effective, because reporters create things." That is paraphrasing a bit, but it was the general idea put across.

So, when we are talking about outsourcing engineering jobs, what exactly do engineers do again? Oh, yeah, they create things...

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