R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Any keyboard job can be shipped overseas, including engineering (CAD), XRAY and MRI analysis/interpretation.
If you really think about CEO, CFO, CIO jobs can >ALL< be exported to India , and there won't be anything to stop the boards of major companies from doing that. India's not even the end all of outsourcing - there's nothing special about India that some other third-world country couldn't do at lower prices once enough of their populous is trained to speak almost accent free English and to pretend their names are "Joan Sanchez from Ohio"... Once there is cheap labor, cheap telepresence with enough bandwidth to do the job, even a boat parked 30 miles off the muddy shores of East Elbonia would work. The occasional air trip would be needed to slap skin with a few people here and there, but it's not always required... After all, the CEO usually reports to the board and is working for the board's best interests, not necessarily for the company's best interests. Most of the .com's I've worked at, the CEO was hired to do one single thing: pump up the image of the company to make it look like a big jucy steak when it was all crap internally, then sell the turd off to a sucker. This of course results in the immediate job loss of 90% of the employees, etc. (That of course isn't the case where the CEO is a founder and has reasons other than stock price to run the company.) Ok, that's a wet dream I suppose... but there's very little reason why those jobs can't be outsourced. Toward the end of the dot bomb era, there were a few companies offering part time temporary Cxx's for a fee because it was hard for the .com's to find brand name well known CEO's, etc. So if they can be bought by the hour part time, (cultural, accent issues aside) no reason that they have to be physically in the US.