End of Outsourcing?
Nabasa ko sa isang blog ung tungkol sa HomeShoring kung saan any company would get any person of his service doing business using his/her home phone and PC, meaning Less Overhead cost for the company.
In an effort to cut costs, companies have been outsourcing their call center functions for the past decade to low-wage workers in India, the Philippines and other far-flung countries. But that trend is changing as call centers are coming home—and into the homes of free-agent workers in the United States. [Society for Human Resource Management Online]
On my own opinion it doesn’t have to create any threat for us, yeah , since Outsourcing or Telemarketing or Call Centre been with us for a longer time, and definitely Homeshoring applies only to those people opted for early retirement. Making some money while enjoying their last days (kiddin!) but for us Filipinos whose in the early stage of careers, this wont be a good endeavor, maybe most of us would still prefer to fill vacancies or look for vacancy in a dynamically evolving system, meaning “ World with whole bunch of Vultures, wolves and worst kinds”
Back to the labor scenario, cant we see how other countries treat us as a low paying bunch of Brown people hovering with any dumb work they might want to offer? Speaking of Cheap labor here, some may say whose into the Call Center biz that they are up to front in terms of Tech issues and they are being trained to be a leader of Innovation for this, making our assembly line labor industry touted as one leap towards high tech , but it led us nowhere. Imagine buying a first model of CD that came out locally and you asked where it was made and been told that its all imported parts but locally built and made here in the phils. Its clear right? We in fact pinoys are only doing a portion of the work so that no one would really get a “whole picture” of the products. We didn’t given a work so that we can learn to be able to compete. Nada, In our dreams pinoys.
And what more, people do not want to hear all of this, preferring to live in dreamland. And if someone tells them that the CC industry is equal to dumbing down our youth and they will call you things like “arrogant” or “elitist” or “snob” as though you were looking down at them instead of trying to pull them up.
Hindi ba nila alam na ang solution sa lahat ng ito is Entrepreneurship at self reliance. Kaya nga di nag susustain ang anumang work industry or fad sa atin kasi Philippines is only a supplier of Labor, and industry that is dependent on the operations of business model(mga kapitalista). Foreign interest can easily relocate business elsewhere na mas cheap ang labor cost. Inorder for us not to be easily dumped, we need local engineers and entrepreneurs who can create and support business models into success. Tingan mo, Si Tan may ari ng Asia Brewery,PAL and PNB. Sy owns SM and commercial banks, Ty owns Metrobank, Ayala owns properties, Globe and BPI/FEBTC.
“Self Reliance is really the key. We cannot be dependent on the whims of other people, especially those whose prime motivation is their own profits rather than the development of Philippine economy”
Sabi nila (Admin) mas mabuti pa to kesa mag bloat lalo ang percentage ng Unemployment. Tama ba to?
“On National Level we lacked focus and direction. Puro Band-aid solution ang approach ng GMA administration sa unemployment problems”
So guys, what approach can we suggest to GMA that we are sure will work?
Think…
