Comments on: Forget India, Outsource To Arkansas http://www.webguild.org/20100708/forget-india-outsource-to-arkansas The Voice of the Web Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:50:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: S. Jhalani http://www.webguild.org/20100708/forget-india-outsource-to-arkansas/comment-page-1#comment-41725 S. Jhalani Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:46:33 +0000 http://www.webguild.org/?p=86895#comment-41725 So long as US companies only think of outsourcing to biggies like Infosys, TCS, etc, and in turn these biggies only think of using the handful of places like Bangalore or Hyderabad, the costs of outsourcing will remain high and the concept of rural onshoring within America will take off. However, I would like to caution that in the long term the competition may increase with more Indian companies seeking a piece of action. Further, they may perform work in smaller cities in India that also have personnel with excellent communication and technical skills, who can perform work at less than half of the prevailing wages in Bangalore or Hyderabad. This process will accelerate, given the deflationary trend in US that makes cost an important factor. So the phenomenon of rural onshoring may be a temporary one. So long as US companies only think of outsourcing to biggies like Infosys, TCS, etc, and in turn these biggies only think of using the handful of places like Bangalore or Hyderabad, the costs of outsourcing will remain high and the concept of rural onshoring within America will take off.

However, I would like to caution that in the long term the competition may increase with more Indian companies seeking a piece of action. Further, they may perform work in smaller cities in India that also have personnel with excellent communication and technical skills, who can perform work at less than half of the prevailing wages in Bangalore or Hyderabad. This process will accelerate, given the deflationary trend in US that makes cost an important factor. So the phenomenon of rural onshoring may be a temporary one.

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