Out Sourcing To India

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“Outsourcing to India”
In times of cutting back on cost in order to maximize profit, India seems to be the outsourcing hotspot of choice for American companies. As reported in the “Wall Street Journal”, US could send six million jobs to India over the next 10 years. With Microsoft opening its second Headquarters in India and even rumors of secret software sharing with Indian companies the outsourcing craze seems to be unstoppable.
As I read in the “Wall Street Journal”, Companies like Dell, Intel, AMD, and even American Express moving majority of there customer service departments oversees to India because costs are a third there, and the companies offering outsourcing are better. Hungry of opportunities and willing to work to just survive, the average Indian citizen makes one tenth of the average Americans salary, Making it almost be impossible to foresee a reason for any American companies to stay put in America.
In comparison to other issues, India creates two thirds more IT engineers and boffins a year then America does. You definitely feel the level of life rising in India with this explosion of jobs, money and education more vastly available to its citizens. As Bill Gates was quoted for saying “Twenty percent of engineers working for Microsoft are Indian”. Realizing how vital the Indian community is to his company Bill Gates has gone on record to be one of the biggest supporters of India also Arguing the 150 million dollars a year America was giving India wasn’t enough.
A few of the downfalls of close connections to India for company like Microsoft would have to be dealing with piracy and breach of copy right laws. With no real laws in place to prevent either or from occurring, and growing anger of Americans for jobs lost to other countries these problems are some of the few which keep almost all remaining American companies from outsourcing to India.
With thousands of American jobs being lost everyday ...