Of course, the main reason why companies in developed countries outsource jobs to developing countries is because of the cost factor.  They get their work done at a fraction of the cost.  The cost being the salaries paid to the employee in the developed country.  So, are companies just being greedy doing that?  The answer to that is obviously yes, but then companies do operate on generating profits.  So, can or should people blame them for doing that?

I think business would continue to function with the sole purpose of generating profits and I think that's the capitalistic way.  So, I don't think the developed world is going to be keen on going the socialism way or the restrictive trade way.  Also, while theoretically one can ban outsourcing, there are also consequences to that.  For instance, it is a fact that most developing countries have millions of their people depending on outsourced jobs for their employment.  How would those countries react, for example, if suddenly all those employees are rendered unemployed by legislation in the US and Europe.  Would they not perhaps take tit-for-tat action in response.

The developed countries depend on Asia and developing countries to sell most of their products, cars, aircrafts, computers, among others.  A retaliatory ban would result in job losses in the developed countries as well.  So, a ban on outsourcing would mostly entail a trade war that is not going to serve anybody, neither the developed or developing countries.  Outsourcing, therefore, is in the best interests of all nations.  It might lead to job losses in some sectors in developed countries, in the short-term, but it will lead to job creation in other sectors of the economy in developed countries.

One of the major reasons for Wal-Mart’s labor revision is its lack of gender equality. Throughout the past decade, Wal-Mart has sexually discriminated against women working in its stores everywhere. This sex-bias has only recently been acted against in what could become a very costly case for the corporation. In 2004 a gender discrimination lawsuit was filed against Wal-Mart in what is the largest private civil rights case ever (Armour A1). The 1.6 million women filing the case worked at Wal-Mart between 1998 and 2004 and claim that they were paid between five and fifteen percent less than men in similar positions. They also claimed that they received fewer promotions than men even when they were more deserving and qualified (Armour A1). A June 23 article in USA Today listed several statistics relating to the matter. In the U.S., approximately 65% of Wal-Mart’s employees are women yet only 14% of the managers are women (Armour A1). These statistics show a clear gender bias that should not exist. Although sex-bias suits similar to this one have been filed regularly throughout the nation, this particular case means more than most. Wal-Mart is estimated to employ 1/123 of all the workers in the nation. Punishing sexual-discrimination in this case could send out the message that it will no longer be tolerated in our nation. As Jocelyn Larkin, a women’s rights spokesman puts it, “They are the largest employer in America, and everyone is watching this” (qtd. in Amour A1). Wal-Mart has a decision to make, it can either choose to respect women’s labor rights, or it can be sued into submission.

Unfortunately for Wal-Mart, the pending gender discrimination case is only one of its labor woes. Another reason for labor reform in Wal-Mart has recently reared its head; Wal-Mart has been forcing employees to work through their lunch breaks without pay. On Thursday July 22, 2005 a Californian jury awarded thousands of Wal-Mart workers a combined $172 million dollars for being denied the thirty minute lunch breaks guaranteed them by California’s labor laws (Bacon A3). California law states that workers with shifts over six hours are to be given a thirty minute unpaid lunch break. The problem with this case is that it is not the only one of its kind. This class-action suit is only one of forty nationwide cases addressing similar violations at Wal-Mart stores (Bacon A3). A juror on the California case states simply that “Wal-Mart didn’t do their job, they didn’t pay their people” (qtd. in Lee A1). It is one thing to deny workers lunch breaks, but it is entirely another to make them work through the lunch breaks without compensating them for doing so. This is an outrage that should not stand. The court case was won in California, but the issue is having limited success elsewhere. The government needs to step in and show Wal-Mart who the real boss is!

These cases are only pieces of the worker abuse problem. Suppose that Wal-Mart did pay everyone what they were entitled to without being biased, would that fix things? The answer to this question is no. Unfortunately, the workers who are getting paid aren’t getting paid well. One would expect Wal-Mart to at least pay a living wage, “A wage sufficient to provide minimally satisfactory living conditions” (“Living Wage”). Oddly enough, Wal-Mart doesn’t even meet this basic need. Seventy-one cities in the U.S. have passed ordinances defining what their idea of a living wage is. The average of these values is estimated to be $9.68 an hour (EPI). Wal-Mart pays an average hourly wage of $8.23 according to an independent statistical analysis funded by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW). In addition, a starting cashier’s wage at many locations is under $6.50 an hour. It’s sad to think that Wal-Mart doesn’t raise its average wage when simply increasing prices by an average of one percent would put the average wage at $9.54 an hour (Cox).

So, Wal-Mart doesn’t pay equally, fairly, or sometimes even at all. The company must at least give good benefits or people wouldn’t work there right? Wrong. Yet another area of Wal-Mart’s labor practice that needs a change is its healthcare benefits which are drastically inferior to the rest of the nation. In October the Center for a Changing Workforce examined Wal-Mart’s 2006 health insurance plan. The report this organization filed stated that Wal-Mart’s least expensive family health plan has a $6,000 deductible and can cost families as much as $10,200 in out-of-pocket expenses (qtd. in Adams). This amounts to 60% of an average worker’s wages (qtd. in Adams). Wal-Mart of course claims different numbers. Despite all the evidence against them, Wal-Mart executives claim that the healthcare costs no more than $11 a month for individuals and thirty cents a day for children. They clearly have been trying to cover up any information that would lead to a bad public image. So far its working but we can change that by exposing Wal-Mart for what it really is, a monster sucking the blood out of this nation.

In China, the conditions are much worse. The legal minimum hourly wage in China is set at $0.31 an hour (Cox). That isn’t too much for Wal-Mart to pay, is it? The answer to this question surprises most. In 2001, 15 factories manufacturing products for Wal-Mart in China were only paying $0.23 an hour! (Cox). In addition, the average number of hours worked per week per worker at those locations was 73 (Cox). The really sad part of this story is that CEO Lee Scott was paid an average of $23 million a year during his career at Wal-Mart (Cox). Wal-Mart is paying a wage so low that it is illegal in China (which is saying something) while also forcing people to work so many hours in a week that some workers are on the verge of death from exhaustion. It’s not hard to see how Wal-Mart became so profitable of a corporation. The sheer lack of worker compensation makes unbelievably low prices possible but it also increases the cost to human beings.

Perhaps the biggest problem Wal-Mart poses is not about its own labor practices, but instead about the corporation’s effect on labor practices elsewhere. Wal-Mart is a mega giant retailer that pays its workers next to nothing in order to maintain its unbelievable low prices. The problem with this is that other stores are being forced to apply many of the same labor principles to keep up. The story of how a Wal-Mart affected Spencer, West Virginia is a perfect example of what happens when a Wal-Mart comes to town. The town was slowly losing retail business and was hoping that allowing a Wal-Mart in would increase the retail sales by drawing sales to the small town’s other businesses. The arrival of the new store did increase retail sales in the town. Unfortunately, all of these sales went to the Wal-Mart. A local smalltime grocer stated that “We fared [well] against them the first year” but he admits, “I don’t know how we stayed afloat the past two years. We struggle every day to keep the doors open” (qtd. in Ginsburg). The grocer claims that he can’t compete on price. Other local businesses are struggling as well. The cities previous number one employer closed less than a year after Wal-Mart arrived and several other businesses followed suit. Since then, almost 500 jobs have been cut (Ginsburg). The city is now lacking in jobs and has had its economic structure nearly shattered under the weight of the Wal-Mart. This is the story of many other small towns around the country that have been taken over and become dependent on the Wal-Mart that was once dependent on them.

There are more problems still with Wal-Mart. One is that Wal-Mart single handedly established outsourcing by forcing corporations like Levi-Strauss to go out of the country for cheap labor. Levi-Strauss experienced a 45% decrease in sales between 1996 and 2003 mainly due to competition from cheaper jeans that were being sold at Wal-Mart (Cox). The sales increased six percent after Levi-Strauss began selling jeans made mainly overseas at Wal-Marts around the country (Cox). This seems all well and good but when you look at the number of jobs lost in the U.S. during this time, you notice otherwise. Levi-Strauss had sixty factories operating in the U.S. in 1981 when the company was at its peak (Cox). In 2004, after moving completely overseas, Levi-Strauss closed its remaining two U.S. factories (Cox). This change cost the nation thousands of jobs. Rubbermaid had many of the same problems with Wal-Mart as did many other large-scale manufacturing companies. The nation has lost numerous jobs because of Wal-Mart’s demanding low prices, yet the problem continues. 

Wal-Mart is a monster that must be killed. It is swallowing the nation with its corrupt business practices and business ethics. In addition, it devalues workers by taking away all of the compensation guaranteed them by law. Its workers are paid poorly and have little or no usable benefits. They have been denied breaks and in some instances even pay. By encouraging outsourcing, the corporation has encouraged taking advantage of soft international labor laws. In China, children are working overtime for less than the price of a pack of gum per hour. The United States is losing its jobs to these same children and there is only one way to stop the process. We must force Wal-Mart to reform its labor practices and strengthen our labor policies at the same time. Once the super giant falls, the rest will soon follow. If we do not do something now, I fear that our nation will be overtaken economically by Wal-Mart to the point where we are fully dependent on its poor paying jobs. If this happens we might as well throw our entire lifestyle away. We as a people have two options, we can either watch as our nation crumbles under the strain of Wal-Mart or we can take the fight to the government and demand better labor practice to ensure a safe future for our kids.

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Let their experience be your strength.

It's better not to waste time on that job that is not your primary objective. To be a successful business person entails engaging the right people for the right job. By outsourcing a job to a virtual assistant you are partnering with a professional person that has an experience working on inner administrative jobs and in corporate grounds.

VA operates as an Individual service provider.

For a small business organization & for busy entrepreneur, it is most important that your key factors needs to be seen exclusively. A virtual Assistant can help you in various tasks depending on the skills of VA you select, some of them are Data Entry, Data Processing, Online/Offline Entry, regularly updating your websites, organizing your calendar, submitting your website on different directories and many more. They really work as your partner and keep those duties personally.

Extremely Trained Professional.

Virtual Assistant's are highly trained people with their skills to meet with the requirement of a small business, corporate sector & modern day professional's. It has been found that every professional has a different requirement's and a virtual assistant offer their knowledge in fulfilling those needs depending on the skills.

Hand over your time consuming tasks.

Let a virtual assistant handle those tasks so that you may keep a track in the growth of your business, other things related to your business and living your life stress free.

Independently work from any place.

Whether your in important meetings, in your official trips, or on vacation with your family, a virtual assistant can be contacted by you at any point of time in many ways like by phone, fax, e-mail, IM's.

Single point of shopping.

Virtual Assistant can do projects that range from spreadsheet processing, word processing, business cards, flyers, data entry, data cleaning, internet researching, mailing list, sending out e-mails, database maintenance, website related work like updating website, directory submissions, search engine jobs. There is no business related duty that a virtual assistant cant do or not ready to learn in any case.

Focus on business growth and making money.

Engaging a Virtual Assistant allows you the freedom to look into your core area's of your business so you can grow your business and make more profits for your organization, instead of keeping a track on ordinary jobs those are natural in your business needs. A business professional is the one who thinks about deeply making money and the more time to work on major business needs and VA's are the one's will surely create an opportunity to do the same.

Hiring a virtual assistant saves your money.

By outsourcing your work to a virtual assistant instead of engaging an in-office assistant you don't need to look into your employee insurance, benefits, payroll, sick pay, workers compensation etc. when you can invest your money in making your business. You need to worry about calling your employee when they are sick or on vacations. There is no room to hire in-office personnel when a virtual assistant can perform those duties for you

I have seen many queries from business professionals, small business owners that what is a virtual assistant, Who hire a Virtual assistant, How they work for business owner, How much they charge for a work, What type of work they can do, How they complete my job without even meeting, How can I find a virtual assistant which is a best suited for my job, How a virtual assistant is better than an assistant in my office, How they complete the . These all are genuine questions normally business owners have when they heard or wanted to hire a Virtual Assistant and need answers for these questions as well.

What is a Virtual Assistant?

A Virtual Assistant is a skilled person that does variety of jobs that includes but not limited to Administrative Jobs, Computer Online/Offline work, Web based work and the person who work virtually for you. By use of modern communication tools a virtual assistant work in his own office for you and send the completed task back to client via, E-Mail, Fax, IM, Phone etc. You don't need to meet your virtual assistant to get your task completed when you and assistant can communicate about job via mail and phone.

Who hire a Virtual Assistant?

Any business professional can hire a virtual assistant some of them are Real Estate Agents, Small Business Owners, busy entrepreneur that can hire a virtual assistant and get benefits of the services a virtual assistant provide. The best way to use a Virtual Assistant is that they can be used on an “as-needed” basis;

How can they complete my work without even meeting?

These days the modern communications technology allows work to be completed from any part of the world. Normally, Client sends the details of work need to be done via e-mail or phone to a Virtual Assistant and in a same way your virtual assistant will upload the completed work back to web or e-mail to you. This is completely the responsibility of the virtual assistant to complete the work on time and to make sure client gets it.

How a virtual assistant is more beneficial than an assistant in my office?

Some of the common factors hiring a virtual assistant is that, Virtual Assistant has its own set of equipments, software's, training in which a client need not to invest. Virtual Assistant's are very beneficial to clients in terms of finance. A client need not to pay for his employee benefits, insurance, taxes, sick pay, vacation pay and in fact not even while sitting idle. A virtual assistant is the one who will charge you only for the time spent on a particular project.

One of the benefits engaging a virtual assistant is that having another person in your office you need to arrange one more desk, computer and other office equipments with the cost maintenance as well. In case of virtual assistant they have their own work place, hardware, equipments and maintenance etc. When a business owner compares all these things between hiring an in-house employee and virtual assistant, VA will be the one comes out far cheaper option.

How much they charge for a work?

In India the labor cost is really very cheap in comparison with other countries. The general price range a virtual assistant in India ranges from $4 to $7 per hour depending on the work needs to be done. Many Virtual Assistants works on a fixed fee per project as well, in this case generally client has an idea how many hours needed to complete a particular project and this is really a good option to pay fixed fee for a project instead of hourly paying.

How can I find a virtual assistant which is a best suited for my job?

A client needs to find a virtual assistant who is skilled enough to meet the requirement of the work needs to be done. The most important factor while finding a virtual assistant is not a skill and not even the charge of project, the only thing required is do you match the virtual assistant as per your requirements and do they match with your requirement? Finding a VA you think comfortable with is the most important thing, because a virtual assistant will be the one who will work for you and work as a partner and will help you getting your task completed on time which will help your business becoming more successful.

The varying face of worldwide financial system is witnessing the appearance of a comparatively new class of professionals - Virtual Assistants. Getting a Virtual Assistant to work for you gives you an opportunity that your full time office worker may not be able to deliver. Virtual Assistant's provide special services which will help you getting your job completed on time for your seasonal and special project requirement.

Engaging a Virtual Assistant is a right decision to avail highly skilled professional services as you are billed only based on time-on-task No expenses such as paying salary during idle time, insurance, vacation time, employee taxes, space, equipments, training costs, employee reimbursements, holiday pay and much more have to be taken care of with the help of outsourcing a Job to Virtual Assistant.

With the expansion of Internet and other superior communication services the concept of satellite office is being established. It actually doesn't matter that your Virtual Assistant is surrounded by your commuting range or in a different region or even from some other part of a globe - you get all your requirements related to job just on a simple click of your mouse. Distance is no more an obstacle because you can send your project details easily over the internet or by Phone, fax etc.

Amit Ganotra is devoted to present quality service and can meet the deadlines of a project. His services are found very cost effective because of low priced infrastructure expenses and labor in India. Precisely for this reason, some Virtual Assistant in US & UK are subcontracting their work to him. In addition to this his location in a different time zone which is really helpful if the job assigned to him in evening are completed before the start of business day.

Before being a Virtual Assistant, Amit Ganotra was working as an Operations Manager in a BPO in India that gave him an experience to work with international clients delivering quality services keeping a track of TAT for assigned projects. Amit worked on projects for well known US based telecom organizations like AT&T, Cingular, Vonage, Cablevision, XO, Neustar while working as an Operations Manager. He has 7 years of experience in field of Customer Care, Website designing, Directory Submission's, Data Services like Data Entry (Offline and/or Online), Data cleaning (For Duplicate Records in a Database), Internet Research Job's, Data conversion projects.

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What is a VA ?

A virtual assistant (VA) is a self-governing entrepreneur providing managerial, technical and/or creative services. Using superior technological kind of communication and data delivery, an expert VA provide assistance to clients in his area of expertise from his own office.

A Virtual Assistant completes your projects using his own gear, and carries out the work from side to side by e-mail, fax, phone and postal service. As a result, the site of your Virtual assistant is not important. Due to this a business owner can look for an expert best suited to the needs situated anywhere in the world. As they are paid only for time-on-task, owner can hire numerous VA's in discrete locations and have 24x7 supports if required -- paying far fewer than what a permanent or temporary worker would charge for such inclusive support.

As per Virtual assistant capabilities the offered services can be differ. The list of services includes but not limited to Database & Website Development, Administration Services, Internet Research, Graphic Designing, presentation preparation, desktop publishing, computer training, medical/legal transcription, Directory Submission, Link Building ... this is an endless list! Not all Virtual Assistant's offer all of these services; though, being part of VA Networks, your VA can assure client satisfaction. In any case if your VA is not ble to complete the desired task in terms of quality and/or time frame then you can find a New VA who is able to meet your requirements.

Why to outsource work to a VA?

The main advantage of outsourcing is economizing as the VA can do it cheaper. VA's are the one those only charge for actual time spent on work to complete the task.

By outsourcing to a VA instead of hiring an in-office assistant, you don't need to pay for your employee insurance, sick pay, vacation pay, worker's compensation and add-up to retirement plans. A VA has his own set of hardware, equipments, software's, training material etc, thereby a VA is a good option to reduce your capital investment. As skilled VAs are selected to carry out particular job, they can do it in a better way because they do these kind of jobs almost all the time. It is the only business they have to do.

Like you, VAs are entrepreneurs and know the requirements of businesses nowadays ensuring the achievement of their clients. Virtual Assistant's understand each and every client; it is because of these clients that VA's can make sure the achievement of their own businesses.

With the help of modern day communication's modes, projects can be completed without even meeting the client face to face. With the rising easiness of the Internet, finding a VA almost anyplace in the world is fairly easy to achieve - more so in the urbanized nations like UK, Australia, Canada, USA and many other European countries where the VA business is highly organized.

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The dissimilarity among simply subcontracting and outsourcing is that outsourcing involves the extensive reformation of the business around core competencies and outside dealings.

How outsourcing helps your business to a VA:

1. The main advantage of outsourcing is economizing, as the virtual assistant can do it cheaper. Virtual Assistant's are the one those only charges for real time used up on job to complete the task.
2. By outsourcing to a virtual assistant instead of engaging an in-office assistant, you don't to pay for your employee insurance, worker's compensation, sick pay, add-up to retirement plans and vacation pay.
3. A Virtual Assistant has his own set of equipments, hardware, training, software etc. which really reduce your investments in capital. So there will be no wear and tear in your place of work equipment's or a requirement of particular equipment's.
4. Outsourcing to a Virtual Assistant gives you time allowing you to do what you do best. In fact, you can work on delivering the superior value and service's to your clients.
5. When you select a skilled virtual assistant to do a particular job, they can actually do it in a better way as they are the one's those only do these kind of job, because this is the only job they do all the time.
6. Same way like you, Virtual Assistant's are entrepreneurs and know the requirements of businesses nowadays, ensuring the achievement of their customers. Virtual Assistant's understands each and every customer; it is because of the customers that Virtual Assistant's make certain achievement of their own business.
7. The assets of Virtual Assistant can provide your business an access to technical advancement you would not usually have access to.

With use of current way of communications, outsourced job can be completed without even meeting the customer face to face. With the increasing easiness of the Internet, getting a Virtual Assistant nearly anywhere in the world is quite easy to achieve. More so in the industrial nations like Australia, UK, Canada, USA and many more European countries the Virtual Assistant industry is highly organized. The possibilities of rising countries like India can too be a good choice to provide skilled VA services.

What is outsourcing? According to Nelson King, “Outsourcing means having IT work (programming, call center, tech support, design etc) done by workers in other countries, often through some kind of intermediary-specialist companies that facilitate the work”. “The work is sent to other countries because it can be done for less money” (King, 2003, p.1).

Will shifting jobs to lower-wage countries-a form of off shore outsourcing benefit the United States economy in the long-term? With the outsourcing of jobs to other countries many US workers find themselves out of work. How does this truly help our economy? Less jobs here in the United States and less products made here cause me to think that outsourcing may not be the way to go.

Many companies outsource to benefit their needs. What are the risks involved with outsourcing? Do companies need to outsource? What about the average Joe who is trying to support his family and has been at the same job for years? Joe depends on his pay check that has increased over the years with raises and time that has accumulated at years on his job. What happens to him when he looses his job to someone in India who is getting paid much less money to perform his job now?

As time goes on companies in the United States see things a different way. In the Controller's report a recent study from “Financial executives International” explains, “the primary reason companies outsource is “not a core competency' mentioned by 455 and “cost in too high”. (35%)” (The Controller's Report, 2007, p.9). According to the above study it is also written that “Companies outsource processes that cannot be done well-in-house and or those when done in-house have costs that are too high.” (The Controller's Report, 2007, p.9). Also itis stated in this article is; “controllers who have outsourced one or more areas consider their arrangements successful” (The Controller's Report, 2007, p. 9).

According to Martin Schuchman, “small and midsize businesses need their core communications services to not only be reliable, but also to be available anywhere and anytime” (Schuchman, 2006, p. 18). The above article states that “SMBS use outsourcing use outsourcing to alleviate the headaches and management of upgrades, network maintenance and support” (Schuchman, 2006, p.18). “Outsourcing also offers comprehensive physical, network, and application-level security”, according to Martin Schuchman (2006, p. 18).

There are so many aspects to outsourcing. Does the United States gain more monies from outsourcing jobs elsewhere; to have them done by people we don'tknow, and cannot supervise properly?

There are numerous problems with outsourcing. Common sense is that one of them is language. I certainly would have difficulty learning the needs of a job when someone is speaking a different language. When there are different countries; there are different languages. Here in the United States communication is simple. The English language is the dominant language. Understanding the facts of a job needing to be done is much easier when speaking the same language. Ideas and thoughts are less likely to be misinterpreted thus the job has a much better chance at getting done correctly. I believethis is common sense.

Outsourcing is a form of global trade. As with anything else that is under development, there are always risks involved. According to an article written by Andrew I. Sicilliano and Douglas P. Zuvich, “As global competition expands, companies are exposed to myriad risks related to their international trade activities.” “New opportunities overseas, increased government scrutiny of exports due to heightened security concerns, a surge in special trade programs and increasing trade activity make 2007, a year in which businesses will need to manage these trade risks more than ever before”( Sicilliano, & Zuvich, 2006, p. 53). “Trade risks is not as simple to manage as other business risks, given the number of government agencies involved and the fact that every transaction may be subject to numerous regulations”( Sicillano, & Zuvich, 2006, p. 53).

“CPAS should make companies aware that trade risks may arise even when there is not a purchase or sale transaction” (Sicilliano, & Zuvich, 2006, p. 53). CPAS (certified public account specialists) need to identify risks for companies and address the underlying problems not known by the involved companies. In my own opinion maybe the CPAS should think about the families that are involved in the triangle of outsourcing also. Families are so unprotected by all the loss of monies within their family units in the United States. As for reality the CPAS are only for the large companies if they do their job properly. As for the average person out there trying to survive, he or she is basically on his or her own. Wouldn't you agree?

Quality control again in affected by language barrier as well as management control. Imagine speaking to someone 4,000 miles away concerns regarding a product. Imagine this person hardly speaks English. The expense is surmountable; to have an American on site to oversee the quality control, and manage the products or jobs being done. And this;involves time, and distance. Distance affects the ability to manage a product or service and difficulty for logistics and quality control (King, 2003).

Another dilemma is other countries understanding laws. Some countries do not recognize copyright law. Also Terrorism and instability are part of the set backs experienced in outsourcing. If it is so unsafe then why in the United States doing it in the first place (King, 2003)?

The effect of the economy with the loss of jobs in the United States continues with productivity changes, along with risks of outsourcing involved. “Outsourcing from the United States economy is generally for low-value jobs, like back-office operations, phone centers and data entry” (Bhagwatti, Panagariya, & Srinivasan, 2004, 93-114) . “Outsourcing means that the United States economy loses low-wage call centers, but gains high-wage hobs in medical, legal, and other services.” Bhagwati, Panagariva, & Srinivasan, 2004, 93-114).

So, here is the average Joe's dilemma again. If Joe loses his job and his wife is having a baby, what does he do in the mean time? His job would be hard to replace. Does that mean he goes back to school? How does he support his family?

Outsourcing can be ideal for the future; but weas Americans should think of the standpoint of today. Tomorrow has problems of its own. People need to feed their families in the United States.

According to Murray W. Baum, “outsourcing and the savings it generates are the beginning, not the end of the adjustment process”. “Cost reductions from outsourcing can open up new market opportunities for US companies and thus generate additional jobs here at home.” (Baum M., 2004, p. 35) “As poor countries overseas develop their economies, new markets are created for US made products and services.” (Baum M., 2004, p. 36). “While direct manufacturing employment has been declining, total US production of manufactured goods has risen about 405 over the past decade” (Baum M., 2004 p .36).

The opinions of the press along with statistics give us all an overview of outsourcing. But where does outsourcing lead us? Today we need our jobs. Considering all the wonderful outcomes of the future; how can we enjoy them; if today we can't support our families and afford to eat a decent meal?

Although outsourcing has been receiving a lot of attention for the last decade but it is still unknown to many people.

Outsourcing Means when a company or an individual delegates some of its specific work to someone who is not a direct employee. He is paid for providing the service. Outsourcing doesn't mean that it is for large corporations sometimes small businesses also need to outsource therefore it applies to both.

There are many reasons to use outsourcing some of them are listed below.

1. The cost savings is one major reason why companies outsource.
2. There is a greater facility and access to a large number of working people without actually employing them.
3. The people on outsourcing basis do not have to be paid for other allowances like Medicare, pension and housing etc. Therefore they are easier on the budget of a company.
4. Companies can have a large network of skilled and specialist labor through outsourcing. This becomes useful when company needs strength of people larger than usual for huge project.

There are many types of data which are processed by outsourcing some of them are listed below;

Client lists, Mailing lists, member lists, surveys, Rebates, Resumes, job opportunities, Account papers and Telephone numbers for sales calls etc.