Trying to avoid recent intense media scrutiny of offshoring, corporate America is engaging in a conspiracy of secrecy surrounding the offshoring
of work.
From surveys, we know that outsourcing and offshoring continue apace, and they may even be accelerating. Trying to hide that fact, companies instruct call center employees to refuse to disclose their physical location. Offshoring conferences have begun to bar journalists. Companies are also forcing foreign contractors to sign non-disclosure agreements, penalizing those companies if they or their employees divulge that they are doing work for the American company.
If offshoring is so great, why are they trying so hard to hide it?
For more information:
- Marilyn Geewax, “Offshoring Gets the Silent Treatment,” Austin American-Statesman, 5/23/04.
- Karl Schoenberger, “Secrecy the Word on Outsourcing,” San Jose Mercury News, 2/16/04.
- “Offshore Doublespeak,” ComputerWire, 4/8/04.
Vinod Mahanta, “IT Majors Make Top Secret Mega-Deals,” The Economic Times, 1/21/4 - “Outsourcing—A Hush-Hush Affair,” Cyber India Online Limited (CIOL), 9/15/03.
So, what can we do about it?
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