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Mechanics and house cleaning folks – just as examples – don’t have to worry because obviously they have to be “on site” to do their jobs. Likewise, jobs that require direct relationships won’t go anywhere either – for example, face-to-face sales.
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If you look at it this way, everything can technically be “outsourced/insourced”
Why hasn’t a company/stealerships in San Diego offered to flatbed a group of cars down to Mexico to have them serviced, give customers a bunch of 1-day loaner cars, and flatbedded them back. I’m sure from a cost perspective, it might make sense…Probably, one of the major considerations is the logistics.
There is a logistics issue on whenever one outsources/insources. It depends on whether the logistics PITA outweigh the cost benefit. 16+ hr time zone difference is a major logistics issue, especially for development that needs to be done is “fuzzy”. Opening a satellite office to do design and development is completely different, and there isn’t anything wrong with that. Innovation needs to happen at more than one location.
BTW doing business with some countries, you cannot have employees/data located somewhere else. China is one of them. So for some companies that want to enter some markets, you have to have a staff overseas.
Technically, house cleaning (and gardening) for the most part is already “insourced”. Cheaper labor is brought into the country to do this (albeit illegal in most cases).
Question: Anyone want to comment if radiologists are being outsourced to overseas doctors??? Don’t now. But that seems like to be a possibility. Anything seems to be a possibility with this outsourcing fear.
