Outsourcing Jobs :: Globalization, Economics, Economy

It is 200 A.M. and you have been surfing the Internet all night. Your information processing system starts to slow down and suddenly stops. You cannot explain why you have tried everything in your power to get it running again. It is early in the morning and you are tired, so what are your options? You decide to call the computer companys help desk. You know it is late, so you are surprised that someone answers your call. The person on the other end of the phone is an outsourced employee. The language barrier makes it difficult to understand, and you survive upset. At this moment your main concern is to get your computer working again, so you continue to let the technical support representative help you. After a short time of being on the phone, the representative helps you, and your computer is fixed. straight that your computer is in working order, you return to the thought that you received help from an outsourced office. You were not happy to get a representative from oversea s, but now that your trouble is fixed, you realize it wasnt that bad. Many people have the same reaction to this scenario. It is common today to get upset about the use of job outsourcing. The join on of companies that use seaward help is making people talk. The upfront concern is that the use of outsourcing is taking away from jobs in the joined States. This may be the hot consensus, but it is not completely true. In reality, the use of job outsourcing does not have a negative effect on the economy in the United States.Americans complain about the loss of jobs to outsourcing, so we need to take a look at our unemployment rate. It would naturally make sense that if a job is set(p) overseas, it is being taken away from an American worker. In truth, companies have outsourced since the Industrial Revolution (Kakumanu, Portanova, 2006, p. 1). The use of outsourcing jobs is not a new concept it has just become more popular. Offshore outsourcing of labor first became prevalent in manuf acturing industries. Labor in other countries was cheaper than America workers, and transportation fell. This made sending work offshore more economical and began a large wave of outsourcing (Kakumanu, Portanova, 2006, pg 1). Would this then mean that if jobs are being sent overseas in these large waves, there would smooth be jobs left for American workers?