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Trading Places with Indian Outsourcers

What happens when a successful US-based computer programmer, who lost his lucrative job to outsourcing, travels to India to try to get it back?

Will he discover the secret of India’s success, or that sending jobs overseas is an unstable gamble?

The videos below share his incredible experience. It’s a fascinating and humanizing portrait of real Indians in Bangalore, the “Silicon Valley of India”.

This inside look shows how ridiculous it is to throw around terms like “slave labor” and “stealing jobs” without understanding the realities of this unusual world where best jobs start at 6pm and end at 3am…

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Three suggestions:

1. Keep in mind which jobs are displacing foreign workers and which are not.

2. Notice the level of complaining among Indian workers. It’s almost non-existent.

3. Give the videos a minute to load. Patience, young Jedi.

This is hard-to-find coverage that will change how you think about “your” job. Highly recommended.

[Ed. note: the videos were originally sourced from truveo.com and are unfortunately no longer available. The clips were from the 2nd season of Morgan Spurlock’s “30 Days” TV series, episode 2, “Outsourcing.” The DVD is available at Amazon.com (https://www.amazon.com/30-Days-Season-Morgan-Spurlock/dp/B000WGYMII/?tag=offsitoftimfe-20).]

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