Tuesday, September 30, 2003

Overseas Job Exodus. I was thinking about yet another call I got today from yet another offshore outsourcing company. There has to be some way of stopping some of this flow of jobs, in the high tech industry.  Here's my thought -- drop any tax write-off for overseas services work.  That is, disallow as a business expense money given to overseas outsourcing shops.  I have no problem with a bunch of hard-working guys in India doing software.  How about they develop their own software economy, over there?  Figure out some products, design'em, build'em...it's not like they can't...lots of great companies. We just need to find a way to stop the blood-flow of jobs.  What's happened in the manufacturing sector could happen in high-tech.  I think it's worth mentioning that the playing field isn't really level -- American companies must provide a lot of benefits to their workers (health care, etc)...the costs just aren't there overseas.  It's not really protectionism... Maybe I'm really wrong-headed, here... 11:29:39 PM