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#8 - 1--mark--Outsourcing victim--2009-02-02 07:23:38
#I just lost my job with a large firm as part of an 'Outsourcing Initiative'. I worked for the company for many years and then laid off. Granted, they gave a severance package, but it is impossible for me to find another job, as I am just one of many in the same boat. While I understand that businesses need to evaluate and act on initiatives that allow them to compete and make a profit, I truly believe there were alternatives to outsourcing such as natural attrition and retraining for positions where people left the company on their own, offering voluntary resignations with incentives and other creative solutions. Ironically, while some people were forced to leave (laid off), there are now more people coming in with H1b visas, support people who needed to be imported to this country (after all India is on the other side of the world, and they sleep when we are working, and vice versa), and a whole new layer of middle management from the foreign country who came here, called Liaison people who command high salaries, and orchestrate the use of off shore resources with the US team. Personally I think our division was sold a bad deal. I can't see how budgets are reduced. There are more H1b people working for the company on site, a ton of resources off site and this new layer of management (the liaison team) both onsite and offsite. Where's the savings? - --comments-->0--1065--6
