Outsourcing

Hi,

We have frequently discussed outsourcing here, and I thought you might be interested in the following which appeared in a mailing list I subscribe to. I don't know how true it is, or if it will come to pbutt... (I've not quoted the whole thing, just the main details.)

"Outsourcing" - which has become synonymous with sending American jobs to India or China - could soon mean foreign workers sleeping in ships just a few miles off America's coasts. In an outrageous affront to U.S. labor laws, a California company plans to anchor a 600-cabin cruise ship just beyond the three-mile limit off the coast of El Segundo, near Los Angeles, and stock it with foreign software programmers. SeaCode says it will charge clients the same rate as firms in developing countries. The company says the significant benefit of having the low-cost programmers near the U.S. is that clients will be spared from long flights to India and other far-off destinations to check on projects.

Comments anyone?? -- Cheers, Stan Barr stanb .at. dial .dot. pipex .dot. com (Remove any digits from the addresses when mailing me.)

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