Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Indians Doing Our White-Collar Jobs !
Its very shocking to me how someone in a whole different country, atmosphere, can be answering the phones for U.S. firms, providing technical support for U.S. computer giants or trying to sell me a credit card. Its mind-boggling how as Thomas Friedman says in his article “How can it be good for America to have all these Indians doing our white-collar jobs?” Friedman describes how the outsourcing of jobs to India have resulted from globalization and how its leaving all these Americans without any white collar jobs like answering phones for US Firms.
Because of globalization Americans are not the only ones being outsourced from their jobs but also Asian countries like Japan and the Philippines. As How Freidman describes in his article “What Goes Around…2004” jobs like animation that these Asian countries used to do are now the newest products to be outsourced to India. This is because as explained by Ashish Kulkarni ''They spoke English, so they could take instruction from the American directors easily, and they were comfortable doing coloring digitally."
Nonetheless, what goes around simply means that it will come around! With outsourcing all American white collar jobs are being done in countries like India, however these countries are also creating jobs for the American people. Like the company JadooWorks deciding to produce its own animated epic and using American writers to produce it.
Because of globalization Americans are not the only ones being outsourced from their jobs but also Asian countries like Japan and the Philippines. As How Freidman describes in his article “What Goes Around…2004” jobs like animation that these Asian countries used to do are now the newest products to be outsourced to India. This is because as explained by Ashish Kulkarni ''They spoke English, so they could take instruction from the American directors easily, and they were comfortable doing coloring digitally."
Nonetheless, what goes around simply means that it will come around! With outsourcing all American white collar jobs are being done in countries like India, however these countries are also creating jobs for the American people. Like the company JadooWorks deciding to produce its own animated epic and using American writers to produce it.
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A good post.
There is much debate about this issue. Friedman is arguing that this process can in the long run benefit many nations, but only if they are prepared to compete in this new "flattened" world that he describes.
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There is much debate about this issue. Friedman is arguing that this process can in the long run benefit many nations, but only if they are prepared to compete in this new "flattened" world that he describes.
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