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To: fedhead who wrote (18071)	9/3/2003 6:00:46 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 57684

I would agree with you on the hiring except that my position currently exists specifically because these offshoring projects are tougher to manage than companies think. We need double the management, except they call the new management position that has been created a "business architect" or something like that. It is definitely not the same quantity of staff that used to be hired here, say one of these mgmt positions might be hired where 10 developers were hired before. Still, its something and all of this overhead adds to the cost of offshoring a project so maybe the economies of local work will present themselves. We went through this with manufacturing in the 80s where there was this initial perception that every US company that didn't outsource 100% of their mfg was DOA. That was the period when Harley Davidson almost went under. Then, after the offshoring frenzy died down a lot of companies came back. Not the same level as once did mfg here but a bunch did return.