Where Have All the IT Jobs Gone?
David said: "If you work for a company which will outsource: 1) Train the new consultants, show management your team leadership skills. If they do not keep you, then it's their lost." I also think we should go beyond the generalizations also. The term outsourcing has been used here in such generic terms as to make it a negative option. Outsourcing can be very good for many reasons. For example, we have retail stores in many states. All of them have at least 14 PCs. There is also a network, routers, broadband connection, etc. in each store. We have only 8 PC support personnel to manage all of the corporate computers including the retail stores. About 2000 PCs in all. We can't possibly cover all of these computers in many states with only 8 people. So, we outsource. Any store that we can't service for routine calls by a daytime drive from the home office is serviced by PC Medic. They do a yoeman's job and they're not employees of our company. By definition, it's an outsource. I realize that in this thread when we referring to outsourcing we're mostly talking about off shore outsourcing. So, let's not generalize and be specific. (After all, the BCS football rankings have everyone losing faith in computers. That's a generalization that grates on my nerves!) chuck Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer.
David said: "If you work for a company which will outsource: 1) Train the new consultants, show management your team leadership skills. If they do not keep you, then it's their lost." I also think we should go beyond the generalizations also. The term outsourcing has been used here in such generic terms as to make it a negative option. Outsourcing can be very good for many reasons. For example, we have retail stores in many states. All of them have at least 14 PCs. There is also a network, routers, broadband connection, etc. in each store. We have only 8 PC support personnel to manage all of the corporate computers including the retail stores. About 2000 PCs in all. We can't possibly cover all of these computers in many states with only 8 people. So, we outsource. Any store that we can't service for routine calls by a daytime drive from the home office is serviced by PC Medic. They do a yoeman's job and they're not employees of our company. By definition, it's an outsource. I realize that in this thread when we referring to outsourcing we're mostly talking about off shore outsourcing. So, let's not generalize and be specific. (After all, the BCS football rankings have everyone losing faith in computers. That's a generalization that grates on my nerves!) chuck Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer.
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