{"id":817,"date":"2004-04-08T00:41:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-08T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2004\/04\/08\/what-comes-after-offshoring\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:51:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:51:32","slug":"what-comes-after-offshoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2004\/04\/08\/what-comes-after-offshoring\/","title":{"rendered":"What comes after offshoring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/magazine\/81\/offshore.html\">an interesting story<\/a> today on FastCompany.com about the offshoring of technology jobs. <\/p>\n<p>What does it mean? This is something I&#8217;ve been thinking about lately, since we&#8217;re seeing some of the results of this here in Hamilton. This city is dependent on manufacturing jobs, which just don&#8217;t make sense any more, now that a lot of this stuff can be done cheaper elsewhere. So we&#8217;re seeing steel companies in big trouble, and just up the road from me, CAMCO has announced that they&#8217;re closing their Hamilton operation, throwing 800 people out of work. Is this the future for North American workers? When a company can find people in other countries to work for just dollars a day, why would they pay Canadian workers to do the same thing? Shareholders demand the lowest costs, right? <\/p>\n<p>This will be an interesting debate in the weeks ahead. The outsourcing of American jobs is a major campaign issue in the US right now, and it won&#8217;t be long before Canadian politicians are talking about it too in a Canadian election. There are a  lot of important issues here&#8230;.is this what globalization is all about? for years, companies have been sending their product manufacturing to countries where labour costs are cheaper. Made in Japan (or China or Korea&#8230;etc) has meant cheaper costs for years. But the &#8220;brainy&#8221; part of the business has stayed home. The product development, or in the technology business, the software engineers, programmers and highly-skilled support types, were working on the home front. But that&#8217;s changing, and it&#8217;s happening fast. And suddenly, there are a lot more white collar types walking around without a job to move to&#8230;<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting story today on FastCompany.com about the offshoring of technology jobs. What does it mean? This is something I&#8217;ve been thinking about lately, since we&#8217;re seeing some of the results of this here in Hamilton. This city is dependent on manufacturing jobs, which just don&#8217;t make sense any more, now that a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-db","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}