Chapter 6
Minimizing Negative Impact
“You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.”
6.1 Basic Building Blocks of Corporate Offshore Programs: A Brief Review
Before we review ethics at the molar level, let’s briefly review the basics of the offshore model. The foundation of offshore outsourcing is labor arbitrage—the simple shift of work to those who live in a country with first world skills and education at third world costs and salaries. Let’s take a look at the ethics of labor arbitrage at the molar or corporate level.
The offshore cost and value model has shifted surprisingly little over time. The general cost of an IT worker in the U.S. remains somewhere around ...
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