Outsourcing

Should the United States increase the number of H-1B visas and green cards so international skilled workers can become permanent residents?

The basic point underlying the issues is that U.S. has an immense shortage of highly skilled labor ever year and the current percentage of fresh graduates from the STEM field is far less when compared to this huge requirement. Immigrants has always been a boost to U.S. economy. Providing more opportunities for highly skilled workforce to enter U.S. via H1B and work based Green cards, is thus vital.

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What measures need to be taken to make sure that offshore outsourcing does not adversely affect American jobs?

Offshore outsourcing is a highly debated topic. It would be nice if we reflect on the reasons that has lead to offshore outsourcing -

1. Highly skilled workforce for cheap labor – As Matt, pointed in his post, most of the developing countries offers education that is highly specialized and with focus on international job economy. Difference in dollars and x currency, leads to a favorable situation for companies

2. Current restrictions and huge backlogs in H1Bs and job based Green Cards – If U.S. doesn’t take necessary steps to provide more opportunities for the highly-skilled workforce to migrate into U.S., companies will continue to outsource.

3. Inadequate number of high-tech workers in U.S. – Research shows that there is about 190,000 unfilled IT jobs in the US today due to a shortage of qualified high-tech workers. Companies resort to outsourcing to fill in immediate gaps in HR.

Now looking at possible recommendations to remedy the situation of U.S. economy getting affected, the following steps may be taken -

1. Focus on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) based education – As the article indicates, children should be encouraged to pursue these fields right from their school education. Provide more funding and scholarships to students who pursue these career paths. This will eventually lead to increased pool of highly skilled workers at reasonable rates.

2. Increase the number of immigrant job visas which will reduce outsourcing for skilled labor.

3. Establish legislative measures to regulate outsourcing so that companies are required to fill in certain percentage of U.S. natives, if sufficient skills are available.

My point on shortage of skilled workers was based on close examination of this report from Office of Technology Policy, the Federal agency working to maximize technology’s contribution to America’s economic growth. Hope that makes some sense.

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A revolutionary supposition – Advice for improved Education system

The educational system should revise the curriculum according to the current technology demands in the society and to build creativity of students. I think the engineering schools in US are already doing it. If not, it is sad and the management should take necessary actions to consult the industry and experts to see what subjects are most strategic and valuable to the students so that learning it will enable them to build a better society, nation and world.

I don’t agree to the idea of liberation by allowing students to learn what interests them, without proper direction. It will be like unrestricted actions, mostly immature, having no clear direction. A universal principle that we forget is that experienced direction and wise restriction leads to the real educational success and wisdom to build a better society. What will happen if all youth mind and power goes to learning some skating classes and thinks that its their means of liberation? Does that lead to a better well build society?

Looking back to the educational system in India, I think the real drive that is going on is to bring IT to the most common man and reduce the digital divide. The move happening in the schools is not different. I don’t think it has any negative aspect. The world is already moved to the phase of “global village”. Its a wise decision by schools and technological institutions to adopt policies that makes IT a easily available commodity.

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What implementation plans should countries make before entering into contracts to purchase low-cost computers?

Here is a nice article on what determines the usage of XO type laptops in developing countries – http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/india/ . The article can be used as a base for understanding how various levels of developing economies see and plan the usage of low-cost computers such as the ones envisioned by OLPC.

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What measures need to be taken to make sure that offshore outsourcing does not adversely affect American jobs?

Offshore outsourcing is a highly debated topic. It would be nice if we reflect on the reasons that has lead to offshore outsourcing -

1. Highly skilled workforce for cheap labor – Most of the developing countries offers education that is highly specialized and with focus on international job economy. Difference in dollars and x currency, leads to a favorable situation for companies

2. Current restrictions and huge backlogs in H1Bs and job based Green Cards – If U.S. doesn’t take necessary steps to provide more opportunities for the highly-skilled workforce to migrate into U.S., companies will continue to outsource.

3. Inadequate number of high-tech workers in U.S. – Research shows that there is about 190,000 unfilled IT jobs in the US today due to a shortage of qualified high-tech workers. Companies resort to outsourcing to fill in immediate gaps in HR.

Now looking at possible recommendations to remedy the situation of U.S. economy getting affected, the following steps may be taken -

1. Focus on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) based education – Children should be encouraged to pursue these fields right from their school education. Provide more funding and scholarships to students who pursue these career paths. This will eventually lead to increased pool of highly skilled workers at reasonable rates.

2. Increase the number of immigrant job visas which will reduce outsourcing for skilled labor.

3. Establish legislative measures to regulate outsourcing so that companies are required to fill in certain percentage of U.S. natives, if sufficient skills are available.

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