Offshoring Just Got Reversed! Get Your Work Done in the U.S.
The U.S. is the most preferred “offshoring” destination. Well, not in the sense of the mainstream services outsourcing industry, but definitely one aspect of the overall global services business: Online work-teams and individuals who handle a variety of tasks across countries.
There has been nearly a four-fold increase in work done by people in the U.S. for assignments flowing in from countries such as Australia, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, U.A.E., and the U.K., according to oDesk, on online marketplace for work-teams.
Work is also coming in from unlikely places like Jamaica, Egypt, Norway and Singapore. Thousands of small to medium-sized businesses from these countries use the online marketplace to hire, manage and pay service professionals around the world. Examples of such work include web development, administrative services and virtual assistants, and content development amongst others.
The number of assignments outsourced to the U.S. on oDesk increased from 80 odd in Mar. ‘08 to 280 odd in Mar. ‘09. “While the majority of this increase was due to homeshoring, or U.S. businesses outsourcing to freelance professionals in the U.S., a growing proportion was due to foreign countries outsourcing work to the U.S.,” cites the study.
With scores of American professionals rendered jobless during the current recession, availability of talent is not an issue. The demand side is encouraging too because the average feedback score on satisfaction from such services delivered is increasing. The model of online marketplace for skilled teams of professionals is could thus be both a solution to unemployment in the U.S. and resource crunch faced by small and medium businesses.
THe author forgot to say wages for US IT workers drop to India wage rate
Interesting how there are no number attached with this. Look at some other articles here how very specific numbers have been stated (they’re incorrect and not provable, but at least something was stated), but job creation – that’s something that could be proved and determined, which is why no numbers were given.
So, how about some factual information. Oh, btw, hiring 10 Indians living in Intercourse, PA won’t cut it.
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