If workers in offshorable jobs can easily move into related positions, then offshoring is of no concern at all.
It is part of an effort to boost the profits of large corporations and Wall Street by offshoring jobs, undercutting worker rights, and dismantling labor, environmental, health, food safety and financial laws.
"Given Nike's legacy of offshoring American jobs and exploiting low-wage workers, I would strongly encourage you to cancel this meeting," he wrote.
In order to convince a sceptical public that the Trans-Pacific Partnership is not a secret corporate power grab that will send US jobs overseas and lead to internet censorship, President Obama will be giving a speech today at the headquarters of Nike, a company associated with offshoring American jobs.
Taking that argument further, if domestic apathy is the problem, perhaps the answer is offshoring.
Unemployment in the city peaked at 8.4%, though it never got as bad as in the area around Katowice, where it reached double digits.Katowice too turned to outsourcing and offshoring.
That is offshoring, but it is not outsourcing.Related items Idea: Niche marketOct 27th 2009 Idea: OutsourcingSep 29th 2008Economists argue that offshoring is a win-win phenomenon: the country that sends the work abroad gains from lower costs, and the country that gains the work gets extra jobs.
The same cannot be said for the new hot areas for BPO: human resources and R&D.Mr Preston reckons that companies that want the cost benefits from offshoring in places such as India and central Europe should think carefully before handing control of their business processes to others.
If this isn't offshoring of child-bearing and child-rearing, what is?Nimish AdhiaChicagoSIR – Britain has a long record in offshoring its problems.
There is little cost advantage to offshoring for small batches of goods or where fast delivery to local customers is important.
Just as London has continued to thrive as a financial centre despite competition from cheaper locations, so Britain's business services will continue to prosper in the age of offshoring.
