Mumbia ....many UK & US companies have call centres and IT instillations there...

[Pavilionaire]

The call centres should be flown back to this country to spend time with their wives and families while a full security assessment is undertaken.

 

[London Calling]

Give it a rest. It's just people trying to get by and do the best for their family. Might be peanuts to you and me, but then we're pampered Western brats. We won't starve. The outsourcing is, if anything, improving people's lot in some parts of the world faster than Christian Aid or UNICEF or anybody else could ever do. OK, it's an accidental by-product of bottom line greedhead capitalism, but, say, L&G outsourcing its IT fdepartment from Hove to Bangalore has a trickle-down beneficial effect more than they ever intended or cared about. It builds links across the world and just maybe makes it a better safer place.

Might as well pack up and send all our jobs over there then,

that would leave say 15 million unemployed, no one paying for public sevices etc here. Soon the Country would be bankrupt.

We would then abolish the minimum wage.

Companies would come here bcause of our low wages, though there would still be poverty and destitution.

Not really a good idea really?

But we might have a couple of good curry houses.

 

[m20gull]

Had a cracking message on our company intranet today. We have been slowly "offshoring" jobs to Mumbai (luckily an office in the suburbs a comfortable 12km from the nearest violence) but the office was closed for the day. Our clients however are to be reassured that we simply moved the work back to the UK for the day so there were no service issues; of course we're all just sitting around doing nothing.