Outsourcing

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This paper discusses the sound business reasons for outsourcing that make it an economic imperative. It looks at how the primary motivator is to cut labor costs by as much as twenty to seventy percent by taking advantage of labor in lower-wage nations and how there are huge differences in the wages paid for equivalent skills between the United States and developing countries such as India and the Philippines.

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"Critics of outsourcing claim that savings to the American economy are coming at too high a price. One report shows that thirty-one percent of workers who lost their jobs in early outsourcing waves were never fully reemployed, with eighty percent taking pay cuts (Reingold, 2004). Outsourcing is accused of eliminating the job security of America's educated class affecting everyone from IT experts to accountants, medical transcriptionists to customer-service representatives. In research cited by Reingold, in IT alone, 500,000 positions in the United States were estimated to leave the county in 2004 with as many as twenty-five percent of all IT jobs going overseas by 2008. This translates into one million obsolete careers for American workers."

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