These days you find many Pakistani websites preaching against outsourcing and how it is bad for US. Is it because most jobs are going to India? Some Pakistanis are supporting John Kerry because he is against outsourcing to India. It’s like Pakistanis raising money for defeating Republican Indian American Bobby Jindal.
If US outsources to India, it is good for Pakistan as some work could be outsourced to Pakistan in the future. With improving India-Pakistan relations some jobs/call centers may well be in Pakistan. Wipro and other Indian companies are planning to expand in Pakistan.
If Bobby Jindal would have become Louisiana’s governer it would be have good for Pakistanis in US (same brown skin, right)
Also, you might wanna visit Pakistan, there are many calls centers in Lahore and growing, and the same is the case with Karachi. So, a ban or curb on outsourcing will likely to cause problems of Pakistan as well.
I supported Bobi Jindal not because he was brown skinned but because he is an intelligent, bright young man and did wonders in Educational reform, something Louisiana really needed. The Pakistanis who didn't support him did it on party lines not because he was an Indian - well maybe some did. Though I do know a few Indians who happened to be Hindus and they didn't support him because of his change of spiritual heart [to Catholicism]
British dot-com, Lastminute, have outsourced some of its IT operation overseas - ditching India for Argentina.
According to ZDNet, all of its core Unix and database administration operations have moved to a remote office in Buenos Aires run by around 20 e-commerce specialists.
At present it is unknown if any other ecommerce sites have outsourced to Argentina – an attractive option due to its weak local currency. Although the trend could follow as the time difference allows for 24-hour support and as the country has a high number of European descendents, many Argentineans have European passports.
India, an established hotspot for outsourcing, may soon lose out to other countries including China, Pakistan, Jamaica, Argentina or the Philippines. A recent article in The Sydney Morning Herald suggested that, by the end of 2004, an estimated ten per cent of jobs in America’s computer and software services industries will have gone to these countries.