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Should we as Americans be uneasy about the effects of outsourcing? As a supervisor in the manufacturing industry, I have watched a lot of jobs leave to be outsourced to foreign countries. As an American this was a concern to me as it is too many other Americans. As I began to research this essay I began to realize that this is a good thing for businesses and for America. Outsourcing jobs overseas helps the economy and businesses grow by creating jobs and cutting development and production costs.
Outsourcing is necessary because it makes the products and goods more affordable to the consumer. In countries such as India and the Philippines, where the majority of the working population speaks English fluently, companies have access to the same caliber of highly skilled, motivated and educated workers that they have in the United States, but at a fraction of the labor cost of that in the United States. Most of the jobs that are outsourced, such as computer programming, call center and data entry jobs are the ones that Americans do not want to begin with, because they consider them trivial low paying jobs. Usually these low paying jobs have a considerable turnover rate in the United States. Because of the turnover rate, companies spend more time and money to fill these positions because they constantly have to hire and train new employees. In places such as India these jobs are considered good decent paying jobs, which people want to do. In the development of products, engineers from the United States work hand and hand with their Indian counterparts, and because of the time difference between the United States and India projects can be worked on ...