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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
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I might add that I have a sneaking suspicion that at least some of the people who deride an industry for failure to adapt to a disruptive technology would not be too thrilled if it was their industry, livelihood and/or profits that were under threat.  This is quite evident, for example, when you examine how negatively programmers and IT workers react to their own jobs getting outsourced to India. |
I are one of those IT'ers. Soon I may be selling burgers (at 52). You don't hear me complaining about it on these threads. The world changes, and I must change with it.
Part of the reaction to off-shoring is the loss to the business of detailed, unique, skilled experience, which is corporation specific, that is also being thrown out the door as well, in the name of saving a few bucks. And as people like McKinsey have noted, by the time you implement all the new managerial controls to make the process work, you don't save that much money. But....not my problem any more.