30 Days of Outsourcing in India

Very interesting and compelling videos on the phenomenon of outsourcing from a FX series called "30 Days":

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The site describes his situation pretty well:

Morgan Spurlock's volunteer, a successful computer programmer who lost his lucrative job to outsourcing, travels to India to try to get it back.

Will he discover the secret of India's success? Or that sending jobs overseas is an unstable gamble?

In the 1980s American corporations realised they could manufacture their goods cheaper in a foreign country and millions of American factory workers were left unemployed.

In the 1990s it was the turn of the white-collar worker, as the advent of the internet allowed companies to fire expensive American employees and hire foreign franchises to run key parts of their businesses. This is outsourcing.

With its well-educated, English-speaking workforce, India is fast becoming the destination of choice for outsourced jobs in technology and customer services.

Typically, one imagines sweatshop like environments and poor disheveled Indians toiling away in a third world country slaving away stealing jobs from America, but the video does a pretty good job of dispelling such a prejudicial notion, and giving a fair and compelling glimpse into the realities of the outsourcing of white collar jobs from the United States.