Well, the US finally has a cheap enough work force in some places for Corporate America

[Elspeth]

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-onshore21oct21,0,6644651,print.story?coll=la-home-center

Some firms replace offshoring with onshoring
Small U.S. towns can match India in cost.

Northrop Grumman plans up to 50 sites for tech support. Dell opens a center in Idaho.
By Peter Pae
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

October 21, 2007

CORSICANA, TEXAS — Gary Richardson left this boomtown-gone-bust in 1996 for a computer job in Dallas, the big city 60 miles north.

"I didn't think I would ever come back," Richardson recalled recently, "because there were no jobs like mine here."

Not until this year, when Northrop Grumman Corp. opened an information technology center in town and began recruiting IT specialists and software engineers. In a twist on offshoring that Northrop has dubbed onshoring, the global defense and technology corporation has been shipping computer work to small-town America, shunning India's Bangalore and Mumbai. Century City-based Northrop picked Corsicana and six other small cities, including Lebanon, Va., and Helena, Mont., as locations for employees who develop software and troubleshoot technical problems for clients hundreds or thousands of miles away. It costs Northrop about 40% less to have the work done in Corsicana than in Los Angeles -- savings similar to what would be achieved by sending jobs overseas.

"We're getting very high quality and a dedicated workforce," said Thomas Shelman, president of Northrop's Information Technology Defense Group and creator of the company's onshoring program.

Onshoring, in fact, is becoming trendy....

[annabanana]

1. Churning high paying American jobs through

the offshore constriction machine
to re-import them as mcjobs..

nice

[valerief]

2. Bingo. That's exactly what's being done. nt

[WinkyDink]

3. What is "contriction"?

[annabanana]

5. tks. . . . n/t

[Elspeth]

4. Yep. It's all about keeping labor costs down to bare minimums and profits to obscene levels

I wonder what these tiny municipalities are paying the corporation for their "generous" presence. Probably letting them skirt environmental laws, maybe picking up the tab for city services...

[annabanana]

6. I wonder if these "new jobs" come with bennies?

:sarcasm:

[madokie]

7. I could have told them that they would get good competent help here in America

and its about time that onshoring becomes trendy.

[Rhythm and Blue]

8. And the race to the bottom accelerates!

This is some exciting times, man!

[librechik]

9. good lord

withhold the jobs long enough to break us down and then move back and save the desparate tow.

No fear about unionizing there, i suppose

[shadowknows69]

10. Stream call center, Watertown NY

the city bent over backwards to get them to come here. Promised jobs of 8-10 dollars to start. Ended up being minimum-7.25 an hour for all but a few. They tout themsleves as firendly to working mothers or single fathers, students and people already holding second jobs as far as scheduling then when you get in there the attitude is "take this schedule we give you or go elsewhere." They promise bennies but they don't kick in until a minimum of 6 months and they usually make sure you're fired or life made so unbearable you quit before that. Lower level advancement seems dependent on looks and incompetency, and promises of vertical movement in the company is a pipe dream for all but a very few adept ass kissers. My limited experience there anyway.