Outsourcing In The Workplace

How does the outsourcing of jobs affect you, and will it affect your children? Throughout the years, numerous jobs has been lost since companies chose to outsource. Around the 1970s outsourcing was big since technology was beginning to advance. Outsourcing is the shifting of a business from one country to another also known as job or offshoring. Companies choose to outsource or offshore for a number of reasons, perhaps they are trying to save money on taxes or increase productivity in the company. As humans we have different view consequently leaving us to see this issue from different perspectives depending on where we stand economically and financially. Although outsourcing jobs can be beneficial to big businesses and corporations it’s bad …show more content…
Personally, I don’t think I would be able to just leave the country in order to follow a job, moreover, it seems unfair to leave individuals jobless no matter the reason. The future is uncertain, therefore planning ahead is best, otherwise you might wind up unemployed. In the automotive field it not farfetched that technician can be replaced by cheap laborers. According to "Behind shrinking middle-class jobs" (2017), "People working In trades such as carpentry have taken a hit too. Recent years have seen the rise of outsourcing even in professional ranks, like accountants and lawyers." Outsourcing is slowly making its way to each occupations, certainly it is not hard for automotive companies to get parts fixed and replace in another country and have it sent back in a hurry. Unemployment rates are rising due to offshoring and Americans are taking a massive hit. Kimberly Amado (2017) stated “The 14 million outsourced jobs are nearly double the 7.4 million unemployed in the United States.” “How Outsourcing Jobs Affects the U.S. Economy.” The outcomes are getting worse for the working class. Offshoring might be beneficial but it comes at an abundant