Now that the well crafted and diligently scrutinised PR press release has been posted and real intentions/motivations deleted, can we please go back to the real issue here?
The question that needs to be answered is why can’t Amazon find 16,000 Americans to fill the posts or Why couldn’t Accenture get 14,000 people from Nigeria or anywhere else in the world as suggested. Meanwhile, even the great Uncle Stevo …
Jobs told Mr. Obama that Apple employs 700,000 factory workers in China because it can’t find the 30,000 engineers in the U.S. that it needs on site at its plants. “If you could educate these engineers,” he said at the dinner, “we could move more manufacturing jobs here.”
So what is China doing right? Before you go ahead and say that all the 700K are low skilled workers, what of the engineers that make sure that the equipment and software in the factory run continually? Or can a factory run without engineers?
Some will argue that China got it right by not allowing the West dump dead processes - that the likes likes of Amazon and Accenture do not see profitable - on their youth and turning them into Zombies. Also you cant argue that Labour is cheaper in China as Labour is way cheaper in India than China. So why China?
India has some of the biggest BPOs in world in which the likes of Infosys…
… has trained around 125,000 engineering graduates by June 2015. It can train 14,000 employees at a given point of time on various technologies
But yet, none of it graduates have contributed to the booming startup scenes in India because they have all become Zombies programmed to follow dead processes. Note, the perquisite for Infosys is very high - you need to be in top 2% of the most brilliant people India in your set to get in.
So of what advantage is a BPO in the long run to the youth of any country apart from the immediate cash rewards to its Zombies?