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Saturday, September 29, 2007

India tries outsourcing its outsourcing,

"Many... Americans, recently graduated from college... accepted a novel assignment from Infosys, the Indian technology giant: Fly [to India] to learn programming from scratch, then return to the United States to work in the Indian company's back office.

Now India is outsourcing outsourcing."

"Wipro's [another Indian company] chairman, Azim Premji, told Wall Street analysts this year that he was considering hubs in Idaho and Virginia, in addition to Georgia [states in America], to take advantage of 'states which are less developed,' Premji said."

(What is the irony in this situation? - One would expect America, a developed nation, to outsource jobs to India, a developing nation. In actuality, however, Indian companies are dicovering less developed regions in America where it would be cheaper to outsource Indian jobs.)

"Such is the new outsourcing. A company in the United States pays an Indian vendor 7,000 miles, or 11,200 kilometers, away to supply it with Mexican workers situated 150 miles south of the U.S. border.

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