Outsourcing and the United States

Outsourcing and the United States

Jim McCarthy

Axia College

Effective persuasive writing COM/120

Bryon Ford

September 2, 2006

Outsourcing and the United States

Outsourcing and the United States: benefit or not? Outsourcing, or off shoring, note many workforce experts, is simply a fact of a global economy. The fact is, the nine-to-five workday is no more, and because of that, United States employers have a choice. They can either go to the expense of hiring a 24/7 workforce to meet the needs of an international marketplace, or they can send there jobs overseas. There are also proven savings when it comes to off shoring as well, namely that workers in India and China are willing to accept less in the way of pay than workers in the United States will (Babcock, 2004). Nearly every United States company is off shoring, or at the very least, considering doing so (Babcock, 2004).

The situation we face