Outsourcing To Podunk Keeping Jobs Within The Borders
f you have called a home say in Arkansas?
company s customer service
call center or a computer Outsourcing to rural America may
manufacturer s tech support be a win-win solution for the
department lately, you probably growing problem of rising
have had the joy of salaries and demand for lower
experiencing outsourcing for cost goods. With the cost of
yourself. The inefficiency of living up to one third lower in
non-native English speakers as rural areas of the US compared to
tech support personnel is major metropolitan areas such as
astounding; however, corporate San Francisco or New York,
management across the US feel the salaries are lower and talent is
money saved in salaries by more abundant. IT salaries in
sending jobs to southeast Asia rural America can be as much as
outweighs the nose-dive in 40% lower than in large metro
customer satisfaction ratings. areas, offset by a lower costs of
Forrester Research predicts that living. It makes sense to send
by 2015 at least 3.3 million customer service and IT work to
white-collar jobs ($136 billion underemployed workers in areas
in wage earnings) will be such as North Carolina and New
outsourced outside the US. Mexico.
As US consumers demand lower What types of jobs might be prime
prices for goods and services targets for rural outsourcing?
while seeking higher and higher Most IT positions from software
salaries, corporate America is developers to project managers
caught in the squeeze and has can be sent to rural America as
sought a solution outside the can most jobs that have a
borders of the US. But what if home-based element. Customer
there is a solution closer to service centers are being moved
out further from urban areas to other benefits to keeping the
take advantage of available labor work at home including friendly
and native speakers of English. time zone spans, cultural
understanding, common language,
Outsourcing within the borders and preserving the tax base. The
means broader opportunities for political and economic benefits
executives and managers who wish cannot be underestimated, either.
to opt out of the urban lifestyle Nashville, Tennessee provided
and settle in smaller towns that Dell Computer with tax incentives
provide safer environments with to locate a manufacturing and
less stress. Taking a job in a customer service location in
rural area may mean a 20% pay cut their area.
but usually the lower cost of
living offsets the cut, and may Rural Sourcing, Inc.
actually reduce expenses such as (http://www.ruralsource.com) of
gas and food costs. Jonesboro, Arkansas creates white
collar jobs by keeping work that
It pays to investigate small town would otherwise be outsourced
opportunities which, granted won overseas in towns like
t have as many opportunities Greenville, North Carolina, and
available as the big metro areas, Dubuque, Iowa. RSI provides
but the upside is you ll also project work, call centers, and
have a lot less competition. For other commonly-outsourced jobs to
example, McKesson Corporation, a the talented workers who spring
large pharmaceutical distributor, from the sticks and wish to
relocated a primary data center stay there.
from San Francisco to Iowa and
saved an estimated $10 million in Jennifer Daly a native of
annual salary costs. Besides the Manchester, Tennessee, a small
salary cost benefit, there are town of approximately 20,000
people says, Nearly all the top Austin, Texas to ride the dot-com
10% of my high school graduating bubble but ended up back in his
class have left the area. We all home town of Perry, Georgia after
went to college and got the bubble burst. He now commutes
engineering, computer, or an hour each way to his new
education degrees but couldn t position in McDonough, Georgia.
remain at home because there just I want to raise my kids in a
weren t any jobs here. It s too small town. Life is quieter and
bad. This is a great town to safer here.
raise a family.
With the post-9/11 era of urban
Manchester, Tennessee fits the flight, bringing the white collar
profile of the type of town RSI jobs to small town America is a
targets for new locations growing trend. Professionals in
available talent, near large rural areas are as well-educated
universities, with a low cost of as their urban colleagues and are
living and good education not as burdened with high housing
systems. Similar small towns costs and other cost of living
experience a brain drain when items. Bringing the jobs to them
the young professional adults that would otherwise be sent to
with new degrees are not able to India, Malaysia, or Pakistan
settle at home but rather must benefits everyone in terms of
move away to find jobs. Jack cost savings and better customer
Allen, an IT executive moved to service.
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