March 25, 2005
Outsourcing: By Any Other Name
Despite the fact that a growing number of pharmaceutical and medical companies are offshoring work, the pulic backlash that exists in industries such as call centers is simply not there. One reason may be that companies in these industries refer to their outsourcing by a variety of innocuous psudonyms such as "strategic sourcing" and "foreign partnerships". While the difference exists only in vocabulary, the public relations successes of these companies may in the future propel a growing number of companies to rename their outsourcing ventures. Boston.com Reports:
Outsourcing (aka offshoring) has become a dirty word in technology circles over the past two years as programmers in the United States lose jobs to programmers in India, the Philippines, Russia, and other low-wage countries. As the life sciences industry gets more serious about sending some of the work of developing drugs and conducting clinical trials overseas, they're trying to avoid the dreaded "O" words.
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