• just_change_it@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    well over 90% of all white collar jobs can be done from wherever you can get internet

    This means over 90% of all white collar jobs can be outsourced/globalized. Just a matter of time unless there really is a meaningful reason to stay in the US and pay US wages.

    • MakePorkGreatAgain@lemmy.basedcount.com
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      7 months ago

      yeah, my last job was offshored to India. from what my ex-coworkers told me, problems I could fix in a few minutes would take the new group weeks to do - and that was 6+ months after I got let go. maybe they got better but I seriously doubt it. just because a job is capable of being outsourced it doesnt necessarily mean that it’ll happen.

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        7 months ago

        I had the same thing happen. Job got outsourced, quality tanked but they continued to outsource more departments. Like six months later they were trying to rehire everyone. Fuck that noise.

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        7 months ago

        My company outsourced some functions a few years ago and had hired Americans back within 2 years. Outsourcing is real but it’s also a terrible idea for anything with a high degree of accountability and knowledge. Currently there is an office/opco in Mexico (but the previous outsourcing was India) and if they need to hire but don’t have the budget for an American they’ll transfer someone to our team. But I know the Mexican office is held to decently high standards and everyone they’ve transferred to is speaka English well, and are on at approximately the same time as us since we’re all on the same continent. I like the Mexicans I work with but would like to see more Americans hired, but this is so much better than the alternative lol

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        7 months ago

        And just because quality goes down the drain when outsourcing doesn’t necessarily mean that it won’t happen unfortunately.

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            7 months ago

            Right. A big company can remain solvent for a very long time while absolutely undermining and destroying all of the things they were once great at.