本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛I recently read a book "Naked Economics" (Highly recommended), it talked about these outsourcing and various things from economics. From a society perspective, it is a good thing, just as we see most daily consumer products are made in China. We can argue those made in China products have made lots of companies go bankrupt in the world (esp. developed contries, like USA / Canada), however, as a society, both China and the develped countries are better off.
As an IT guy myself, I feel the pressure but not too worried because I had been working with Indian IT professionals for about 5 years since 2007. My general impression is that the work quality from Indian peers is far from satisfactory. There are indeed a few excellent Indian peers but that's very low percentage-wise. We even try to hire two additional local DBAs there, but we never get one after about two years interviewing tens of applicants. What I mean is down the road, every job will be competed gloablly by job-seekers. Relying on protection from government to ensure our own job stability is a bad bet.
Most Chinese immigrants are top notch guys/gals in their fields even in China, and thus should not worry about the competition. If you ever start to worry about out-sourcing, I'd say you may not be very suitable for what you are doing even without out-sourcing, and it is time to think of other ways to live your life.
As for RBC, personally, I do not think there is anything wrong in hiring foreign temporary workers because I believe if you are the CEO of RBC, you may do the same thing (to lower the operation cost and thus increase the return to all shareholders, which we could be ourselves if we have some Canadian mutual funds).更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net