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OP, what if the answer is yes. Will you not take the job?
If half of the team is located in India, no I would not take the job. Too much of a risk that they'd eventually outsource all positions to India to save themselves money.
If half of the team is located in India, no I would not take the job. Too much of a risk that they'd eventually outsource all positions to India to save themselves money.
Not necessarily. There are reasons to keep a portion of the jobs here, if only to act as a buffer between management and the offshore employees.
Not necessarily. There are reasons to keep a portion of the jobs here, if only to act as a buffer between management and the offshore employees.
Correct, but would you leave a job with zero offshoring to a job with 50% offshoring? It's a big risk and is a reason I'm considering asking the question.
I will likely take the advice of others and simply ask them to describe where my colleagues are located. Should be ten or fewer so not a terribly difficult question to answer.
If half of the team is located in India, no I would not take the job. Too much of a risk that they'd eventually outsource all positions to India to save themselves money.
Every associate could be onshore and the company could reorganize, get bought out, etc.
Avoiding companies with offshore staff will not reduce your personal risk.
Correct, but would you leave a job with zero offshoring to a job with 50% offshoring? It's a big risk and is a reason I'm considering asking the question.
I will likely take the advice of others and simply ask them to describe where my colleagues are located. Should be ten or fewer so not a terribly difficult question to answer.
I would say that a company with zero offshoring would have more pressure to offshore than one that already has half its operations already offshored.
If half of the team is located in India, no I would not take the job. Too much of a risk that they'd eventually outsource all positions to India to save themselves money.
So you find this company, 100% everyone is located in the same building in the US. A year later, 75% of it is offshore. What are you going to do, find another job just because of this? I think you have to understand business and if your concerns are founded in reality. Companies are using offshore to be competitive, so there is more risk of them going out of business by not being competitive.
So you find this company, 100% everyone is located in the same building in the US. A year later, 75% of it is offshore. What are you going to do, find another job just because of this? I think you have to understand business and if your concerns are founded in reality. Companies are using offshore to be competitive, so there is more risk of them going out of business by not being competitive.
Exactly. The OP is trying to control something that he has no control over. Having 100% onshore associates does not mean ones job is safe forever.
Correct, but would you leave a job with zero offshoring to a job with 50% offshoring? It's a big risk and is a reason I'm considering asking the question.
I will likely take the advice of others and simply ask them to describe where my colleagues are located. Should be ten or fewer so not a terribly difficult question to answer.
If you are talking to a large company, there will be offshore employees. We have a ton of offshores, but are still hiring here in the US.
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Yes it will.
No it won't. Companies of any size that don't have offshores will be considering them at some point.
No it won't. Companies of any size that don't have offshores will be considering them at some point.
Yes it will. No it won't. Yes it will. No it won't. I think you two may be talking about different things.
Is your job safe from being offshored at a company not presently offshoring? Not completely.
But is it safer than at a company with significant offshoring? I think so. For one thing, the company may have already "considered" and rejected that path. For another, there is a certain inertia in setting up and implementing such a program.
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