The Issue Of Outsourcing

The Issue of Outsourcing
The giant sucking sound heard by computer professionals across the United States is the transfer of computer related jobs, from service and support to programming and analysis, to offshore businesses. Business executives in the United States are making decisions to relocate many, if not all of the I.T. jobs in their respective companies to offshore businesses on the pretense of saving money. In the short term, these executives may encounter a boost in their accounting bottom line, satisfying the immediate demands of the stock holders. In the long term, the movement of jobs to businesses outside of the United States will be bad for business, and for America. With the employment opportunities for computer professionals looking bleak, less people are entering the profession of computer science. Furthermore, the drain of knowledgeable, experienced computer professionals will result in a weakening of the position the United States holds in the field of technol...