Outsourcing Everywhere
The world is filled with eternal conflicts of opposites: day to night, male to female, left brain to right brain. and of course, management to engineering. Some managers believe that all engineers are the same. If you lose one, just hire another. Some managers have the mistaken point of view that engineering does not require any imagination. Likewise, many engineers look at managers and the fuzzier side of business with its marketing and advertising as something that one manager can do as well (or badly) as any other.
For years, upper level managers have been outsourcing engineering jobs overseas, but most believed that their own position was safe. But now, even previously safe areas, like finance, are fleeing overseas. Combined with the downturn in the U.S. financial sector, things are going to be tough for recent U.S. based graduates. But it is only a matter of time before even high level jobs can be outsourced as well.
Soon managers and engineers will find that they have more in common than they know.
Tags: credit crisis, outsourcing