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Lost your IT job? Blame HR and your management. Don't blame India, or Indians.
Outsourcing tech jobs to India has caused turmoil for workers in the United States and Europe. But it seems it's causing turmoil for Indians, as well.
The whole issue of outsourcing leading to job losses is a myth. Work has always been re-engineered and outsourced. Technology-based productivity increases are the reasons for job losses in manufacturing, not off-shoring! The ‘Future World of Work’ study also addressed the highly topical issue of off-shoring.
Should we fear outsourcing or harness it? This Thursday, Lisle Technology Partners CEO Adarsh Arora steps to the podium at the Chicagoland Entrepreneurship Center to tell Chicago's emerging technology companies to capitalize on outsourcing.
It is true that US manufacturing employment has been dropping for many years, but that is not primarily due to foreigners taking these jobs, he said, adding factory jobs are vanishing all over the world.
Americans protesting outsourcing should understand why it is happening rather than blame India and other countries for it, a US Congressman said.
It would be “much better and a positive approach to shift the emphasis on not blaming India and other nations but to understand why it is taking place and what has gone into creating this situation,” said Congressman Joseph Crowley (Democrat), who hosted the first Indian American Policy Day on Wednesday.
Indian Americans consider the rising protest against outsourcing as an “India-bashing” exercise.
An Economist article proposes that job growth in the U.S. will far outweigh losses to offshoring.
Asking Britain's trade unions to show a sense of fairness towards India, British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has said that it was 'unfair' to blame India for loss of British jobs because of 'outsourcing' and India must be given a chance to develop its skills and markets.
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