According to Yahoo, IBM has as many workers in foreign nations than in the US and is cutting another 5,000 US workers. I want a company to be upfront in their avarice and quit outsourcing to an expensive labor market like China and go straight for the bottom. I am talking about investing in the untapped labor markets of Somalia and Zimbabwe.
Just think of the possibilities with 70% unemployment and ramptan inflation, you do not even need to pay in currency! Instead of a paycheck, you can get a programmer in Harare to write code all day for a bowl of rice and a quarter of a chicken. The wonders of free trade! Imagine Mogadishu going from a land or warring factions to a land of warring call centers, staffed by people being paid in food scraps and maybe as a bonus they can get a bottle of clean water. The efficiency will be off the charts. Perhaps some might even explore the relatively untapped(except by Arab dictators and herdsmen) market for African slaves, seeing as they only cost $50 a head. Look at the potential, the entire laid off staff at IBM can be hired for only $250,000 and then never paid again! Talk about a human resources department's wet dream.
There's a call center waiting to happen
(The following is satirical in case you have never read this blog before)
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