Monday, January 15, 2007
Globally Outsourcing Information Work?
Someone on the librarian stay-at-home-parents group just pointed to this craigslist Bangalore ad for a telecommuting "highly proficient and experienced researcher." From the ad, it looks like they're looking for someone to do work for U.S. companies (they ask for rates in USD and require fluency in English).
Not only did I not know there was a craigslist Bangalore, I never thought much about the global outsourcing of information work. I see a lot of articles about global outsourcing in IT periodicals, but don't think I've ever seen this come up in the library literature. (Am I just not reading the right journals?) Poking around the international craigslist communities, it seems these sorts of listings are, if not abundant, at least somewhat common.
Is this something that's becoming more common? Are we going to be having similar discussions to the (sometimes heated) IT conversations over the next few years?
Not only did I not know there was a craigslist Bangalore, I never thought much about the global outsourcing of information work. I see a lot of articles about global outsourcing in IT periodicals, but don't think I've ever seen this come up in the library literature. (Am I just not reading the right journals?) Poking around the international craigslist communities, it seems these sorts of listings are, if not abundant, at least somewhat common.
Is this something that's becoming more common? Are we going to be having similar discussions to the (sometimes heated) IT conversations over the next few years?
Labels: outsourcing, researchers, telecommuting
