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What do a radiologist and an assembly line worker have in common? After all, one is a white-collar worker in a small town hospital and the other is a blue-collar worker in a large city factory. The answer is that they are both being outsourced. Outsourcing is the moving of services or the moving of production of goods to another location. The radiologist’s job went to India and the assembly line worker’s job went to Mexico. Outsourcing has grown along with the explosion of Information Technology (IT) in the last 15 years. The explosion of Information Technology (IT) does not seem to show any signs of stopping. As jobs continue to leave the United States, the effects of outsourcing remain a challenge for both white-collar and blue-collar workers. Due to outsourcing the American blue-collar and white-color workers are faced with the negative impact of losing job security, the pitfalls of job retraining, the compromise of personal security, and family impact.
After the Great Depression, the parents of Baby Boomers never had to be concerned with layoffs or outsourcing; especially white collar-workers. Employees in the auto industry coped with layoffs but never for long. Outsourcing was not an issue like it is in today’s society. In the 21st century, job security is no longer taken for granted by white-collar or blue-collar workers.
Going to college was always assumed if you received a good education and received a degree one would be rewarded with a good paying white-collar job. Forrester Research (2004) states that at least 3.3 million white-collar jobs and $136 billion in wages will shift from the United States to low cost countries by 2015. Many of these white -collar jobs are private sector jobs in Information Technology (IT) and human resources. They are the jobs of computer science majors and engineers. These individuals were hired as fast as they graduated. Now their jobs are being taken away from them and sent to India and other...
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