India-May detour job-related areas such as North Dakota
After two rounds of layoffs, Ellen Wagner still had a job - training programmers from India to replace their employees. But frustrated and tired of resistance against the changes, Wagner decided to take a courageous step.
You yourself outsourced.
They finish their work in Seattle and adopted another agent pays half as much. They sell their house and acted at two levels overlooking a pasture here, for one third of what it would cost to the madness behind it.
She stacked in a SUV with her Golden Retriever, ginger, and two cats, and beelined away from the trend of outsourcing, has siphoned thousands of jobs on the U.S. economy.
The journey lasted Wagner to this town of 1435, almost 50 miles traffic lights the next - and a job in an office time from an old John Deere dealer. The slate blue around their cabins, decorated with pictures of distant horizons, house programmers from Chicago, Pittsburgh and Jacksonville, Fla.
“I have the next six weeks,” says Larry Cross, the migration of Halifax, Nova Scotia, after his last job was outsourced to India. “And the door of the office, I have already seen three antelope and five deer.
Watford City will never be mistaken for Bangalore, the heart of the outsourcing of Indian industry thriving. But some employees in the USA and companies looking for sites as is the case for a walk, if not stronger relocations, at least under competitive conditions comparable.
Companies bet that the leaders of a company in cheaper and workers are paying much less than their counterparts in big city, they can be sure of jobs that would otherwise go offshore.
It is still not as cheap as India. But business customers, they are companies with workers to better understand their needs in a time zone, one hour of their own. The arrivals of workers to a less chaotic lifestyle accessible.
But is it working? The skilled work at a global level of raw materials and maintain economic realities at the expense of workers who have not yet their companies can be safe.
The company Wagner works for, Eagan, Minn.-based CrossUSA, is owned by a handful of small companies try more often, this mixture of business plan and social experience.
Most have opted for remote sites under Watford City, rolling over Western prairies of North Dakota. All believe they have found a niche against foreign competition.
In Jonesboro, Ark.. and Portales, NM, start-up Rural Sourcing has opened programming centers HR fresh graduates of nearby universities, for less to stay near you. The company is also setting up in North Carolina and West Virginia.
“There is talent in areas that have a low cost of living,” said Kathy Brittain White, founder and the president.
CIBER, a consulting firm Computer $ 840 million in annual sales, opened its first low-cost programming site in Oklahoma City this year.
Computer work “to go somewhere else cheaper and can be in Bangalore, or it may contribute to Oklahoma City,” said Tim Boehm, the executive in charge of Ciber-Low-Cost initiative. The company plans five or six centers in the next two years, in all medium-sized cities.
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