Offshoring...

[vampyrefate]

Apparently the BCS have come to a new understanding with the IAOP to advance offshoring. This made me a bit angry, so I decided to write to the BCS today.
I don't expect they'll publish my letter, so here it is here in case anyone is interested.

Comments

[springmaker]

I guess long term the message is that there are a hell of a lot of cleverguys out there who could do our jobs for cheaper. Manufacturing learnt this, now it's seriously hitting IS, I'm pretty sure it can't be far off for banking (which already draws on an international pool of talent from everywhere in the world). The sooner we all recognise that unless we have some unique selling point we will eventually earn the same money for the same job as those in China India or Malaysia the better. All that we can hope is that their living standards catch ours up pretty damn quick, as otherwise ours will inevitably fall. Maybe if our government recognised this and encouraged us to stop selling houses and complex financcial products for ever increasingly silly amounts of money and start finding something productive to do that the world is willing to pay for we would have some hope of a happy future.

[vampyrefate]

I do not deny that there are 'clever guys' out there. However, I do have a lot of anecdotal evidence that the guys aren't as clever as the salesmen selling them would have you believe. I'm also aware of a number of companies bringing work back onshore for a mixture of reasons, including increasing management costs and the offshore provider not being much good.

But that's not really what I am bothered about. Offshoring exists, and it does so for the reasons you describe. My point is that the professional society for BRITISH IT professionals should not be jumping on the bandwagon to reduce native IT capacity in this country.