In the United States, off-shoring and outsourcing has been the killer of many computer programming jobs. Many of these jobs have been dying off because countries like India are willing to do the same jobs at lower wages. The city Bangalore in India for the past fifty years has been encouraging and supporting computer science studies, so when these American jobs were outsourced, Bangalore became the center of many new higher paying computer science jobs for India. Even Americans who have received bachelor's or higher degrees for Computer Science are losing their jobs. American Legislators have recently created economic policies allowing more global free trade, thereby giving many companies freedom to offshore many of their jobs. While this brings America and India a lot of money, many Americans lose their job. America shouldn't outsource jobs because Americans deserve to keep their jobs, as well as bring business and progression in the Computer Science field.
Computer Science isn't a manufacturing type of a job. It requires brain power and math skills, and many computer science jobs are the backbone for many companies' business and profits. During the recession, many companies gave away these jobs to India because it would be more profitable to the company. This is partially why so many people in the recession lost their job. "About 92 percent of Tata Consultancy’s 250,000 workers worldwide are Indians, according to the company"(Helyar). This means that most of Tata Consultancy's jobs are out of the country. This includes many call centers, and computer programming jobs. Outsourcing jobs is keeping many Americans from money they could be making. Many American's are forced to work in new fields just to stay afloat in our economy. Michael Zurich being fired from his software engineering job, "became a math teacher in 2010 after a fruitless 18-month job search"(Steele). Being fired from a high paying job is detrimental to many American's lifestyles. For workers, having a stable job is the easiest way to supporting a family.
In essence, Outsourcing is bad for America. It's not out of patriotism that it is, but because economically Americans are getting the short end of the stick. Even though the company may be making more money by off-shoring their jobs, Americans are losing their jobs in the process.
Works Cited:
"Outsourcing Turns Inside-Out as Indians Open U.S. Centers." Bloomberg. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Feb. 2013.
"Offshoring Ensures Loss of Good U.S. Jobs." Philadelphia Inquirer. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Feb. 2013.
