Problems Of Outsourcing In America

A large majority of the American people are against outsourcing because it leads to fewer jobs, unemployment, and the negative impact it has on our economy. Moving a company to a place with cheaper labor and such causes thousands to lose their jobs and it also leads to less jobs that Americans can have. Outsourcing is only good for big businesses, not the people who work there or the smaller businesses around. It also has a negative impact on our economy. Although you are producing things at a cheaper price and selling it on the cheap doesn't mean people are able to buy it. If you get rid of jobs and cause unemployment, less people can purchase things and circulate our money. Our economy is built on the fact that people are able to purchase products. When that goes away

Did you know that “the nation has lost more than 2.5 million manufacturing jobs and more than 850,000 professional service and information sector jobs, due to overseas shipping since 2001? (Aflcio)” It is clear to me that some big business companies don’t value the protection of employees very highly. By some big business, ill single one out and state that Goldman Sachs has shipped approximately 500,000 American jobs overseas in the past few years. That’s about half of the total net job loss during these past years (Aflcio). This shows that companies are reluctant to stay in American and scared of the current economic situation. It upsets me to see American jobs being shipped overseas at such a rough time

Just as Hanus states “… technology has made it possible for work once done in U.S. offices to be performed just as easily anywhere in the world.” (17) This is very common for companies who want to save money because the regulations in another country could be non-existent. Another point that Hanus makes is “Now the work itself is mocked…” (17) and the company sees that so they take the initiative to save money, outsource the job. While this is happening there will be less jobs safe and more power is given to the company. This crisis needs to start being taken more seriously and Hanus brings up some very good

With the addition of China into the globalization world, the world supply of labor far exceeds the demand. With several billion new workers in the global supply of labor, companies may shop for labor and relocate to wherever it is the cheapest. Laborers in foreign countries are willing do the same work that a high paid employee would do for less. If American corporations are to compete in the new global economy, they will have to

Not only is this outsourcing causing companies to lose their best employees, but also the consumers that buy their products. "Employees displaced by foreigners and left unemployed or in lower paid work have

Outsourcing is a process in which large corporations move various jobs such as: production of goods, online coding, telemarketing, and human recourses to name a few to foreign countries in order to cut down on employment rates, and raise their profit margin. Moreover, the low amount companies pay overseas employees, lower standard of work environment, cutbacks on various fees that are usually found in the U.S., and much more make outsourcing seem very desirable. However, outsourcing can be argued as favorable, or unfavorable depending on the audience, and their outlook on the issue. I personally side with the viewpoint that outsourcing long term is unfavorable for America. I find this issue very interesting, complex, and large because of the

How is the United States accomplishing this lap of luxury life? To begin with, we seem to outsource numerous jobs to peripheral nations. The cost of having products manufactured in other countries is minimal in contrast to the expenses billed for the same services here. These minimal costs, transfer added wealth into the pockets of the American owners. All comes at a cost to the American people. “This is particularly the case for studies on services outsourced from the United

The way companies are taxed when they outsource also affects us. When I company outsources they are taxed less causing the government to receive less money which ends up giving Americans less. That money could be used to building new roads, bridges, school, etc. Jobs such as factory workers would employ many of the unemployed in America. Even jobs for the middle class are now being outsourced such as computer and technology. Not having a job doesn’t allow people to buy homes, pay taxes, or even profit companies. Companies outsourcing are not always about providing humane working conditions. Outsourcing also may not benefit other countries economy. (Ellis-Christensen, 2013)

I do believe that this is the case for corporations today. Don Lee wrote an article for the L.A. Times which mentioned outsourcing of many healthcare jobs. This article was very interesting to me given the fact that I work in the healthcare industry and have seen this situation first hand. Healthcare facilities and individual providers contract outsourcing specialist. Outsourcing causes a loss of jobs to the American people but I would say that it is not necessarily a bad thing. The cost savings is significant.

For starters, the rise of Cooperate America has led to a hot button issue in every single election: the loss of jobs. For example, Nike pays 75,000 workers to manufacture their shoes, but those are all outsourced jobs. As such, the only positions left are a few thousand

As a result, American workers are often displaced and find themselves replaced with cheap imported labor. Cheap labor fosters sub-standard wages and workers cannot support their families on depressed wages. Companies and contractors love the notion of keeping labor cheap because they’ll always try to operate on conditions that brings high profits and cost down. Others oppose that American workers simply will not work for sub-standard wages. It’s not about whether you are American or not, it’s about working for slave wages. Bob Herbert believes a rebirth of the American dream can only be achieved once our government embraces equal pay and opportunities for all by “developing a full-employment economy that provides jobs for all who want to work at pay that enables the workers and their families to enjoy a decent standard of living.”

This is excellent. You speak of setting limitations on outsourcing in your response. What role do you think the government should play in this? You could talk about how outstanding has greatly harmed or economy. You mention how it hurts the American workers and hurts the workers overseas. It damages our economy by depleting the market of jobs. The less taxes would be collected on state and federal and local levels. Basically, states and federal government tax businesses. If these businesses take their jobs and their corporate presence overseas, the government cannot tax them. So this means less money for welfare benefits, less money for mental health, less money for prisons and law enforcement, etc. it places more tax burdens on regular people

These immigrates do not have any problems with there wages because they made little or less in their home country. In the past decade, “American jobs screamed out of the United States at an ever-accelerating rate of speed,” says Wooldridge, “While American workers stood in unemployment lines, major corporations insourced, outsourced and offshored jobs to Third World countries. Why? They could obtain labor for $1.00 an hour and sometimes less. Capitalism knows no loyalty to man, beast or country.” One example of a corporation exercising this scheme is Bank of America. This company cut 5,000 jobs, and sent 1,250 of them to India. The company has also announced that they would cut 12,000 in the next two years or so. General Electric has also sent jobs to India. The company has sent about 12,000 jobs to India.

To the opponents of outsourcing these statistics correctly state why outsourcing is a negative solution to cost cutting and affects the dignity of the people who used to work these jobs. To the people who have lost their jobs their dignity has been partially lost because they are now with out a job that they have worked for most of their lives and now they can’t provide for themselves and their dependents. Also for the companies that have outsourced these jobs they don’t provide adequate services for their employees who’s jobs are being outsourced. To the companies that outsource should help their former employees find other jobs. This would be beneficial to the worker and industry because the worker would loose a means of income and the industry would regain workers. On the other side the supporters of outsourcing say that it helps the dignity of workers who receive the jobs from the American corporations. An example of how outsourcing helps dignity is if you have an industry like web-design and you don’t get a job over a cheaper outsourced company you will have the extra motivation to improve your business or product (Business, ethics, morality).

Executive management is increasingly recognizing that sometimes the disadvantages of outsourcing outweigh the advantages, even after an agreement has been signed. Many companies are canceling their outsourcing agreements, or deciding to hire their own staff to provide in-house services once again.7