Hello Arun, and welcome to the forum!
I'm not sure how you interpreted my earlier message. It appears that you viewed my comments as doubting the huge influence offshoring is having - indeed, has had for quite some time now on the economy and on individual businesses and their sectors, overall. As the principal of a consulting company that provides professional and technical services to global enterprises I think that I became acutely aware of the phenomenon probably earlier than most. I've learned to regard offshoring and other flavors of outsourcing as just another area in a long list that have become commoditized over the past fifteen to twenty years. I.e., areas in which local expertise - or proximity to essential resources - were listed as imperatives during earlier times.
But it goes back to a time before the current wave of offshoring, if you want to count data-entry functions and the creation of time sharing computer services overseas, when operators up and left large urban areas for places in the boondocks, domestically, and to far off places overseas. Of course, where the influence was telecomunications related, this all had its start when satellites first came on line.
In the areas where I'm engaged, offshoring can be both beneficial and detrimental for business, depending on how one chooses to play it, and who your customers happen to be. If you have any insights on the topic that you've not yet disclosed, please do so. I'd like to read what you have to say.
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