Is this a taste of the future? Outsourcing goes full circle.

[stevedeshazer]

Is this a taste of the future? Outsourcing goes full circle as Indian firms look to the U.S. for cheap labour

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389963/Indian-firms-look-U-S-cheap-labour-outsourcing-goes-circle.html#ixzz1NAnI12dI

It's a frustration experienced by most people when they've made phone calls to large companies.

An unfamiliar voice answers the phone in a call centre hundreds of miles away where cheap labour is commonplace.

But in a reversal of fortunes it now appears that large Indian companies are actually now themselves outsourcing - to U.S. shores.

Large corporations that have boomed in India amid the country's nimble economy have been drawn to the U.S. where unemployment has soared.

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[aquart]

1. "Nimble economy"???

Meaning the endless cheap labor of a population without birth control?

[pampango]

2. "a crackdown on visas by the Government combined with optimism in India has meant that fewer people

want to leave."

"Residents there have seen an increase in living standards and higher wages, which has led to higher spending.

There is also a growing trend that companies want to have workers based in the countries where organisations have large customer bases, or wish to expand into. They have nine centres in the U.S. which employ 5,000 people but that is expected to triple to 15,000 employees. He calls the process of hiring U.S. workers instead of local workers in India 'near-sourcing', 'diverse sourcing' or 'cross-shoring'.

In Lower Manhattan, the call centre employs a large number of African Americans with few qualifications. Line manager Ray Capuana said: 'Our recruitment model is simple. I don't care if you come from Park Avenue or the park bench. If you can do the job, we want you.'"