Offshoring

At school, at work, at the Atos Origin course, I hear people talking about the threat of offshoring. People speak in terms of a threat, because their job is on the line. Maybe not just their job, but also their whole way of life.

Seeing it as a threat they feel relieved when they spot that companies like Dell are coming back from their decision to offshore work to India. This confirms their idea and hope that it is all a hype.

In my trade, software engineering, they say that the Indian programmers can build everything as long as it specified thoroughly. Which means that specifying the requirements takes as much extra time as doing the programming yourself. So why bother?

But do these failures mean offshoring as a concept has failed or that the companies had problems executing the strategy?

Tags:Software, Technology