Offshoring

Since the 1990s, decreasing communication costs, combined with shameful wage disparities, have made offshoring hard to resist by U.S. publishing companies.

Kevin Broccoli, a small-biz indexer like me, wrote this today in an article for Upmarket.

You might think, “well it’s much cheaper, and it’s good enough.” But if cheaper and good enough are all you care about, you’re putting yourself at the bottom of the barrel. Is that where you want to be scraped from? It’s true, being cheaper is one way to compete, but the other is being better. Better at creating remarkable, superior work that makes your products or services stand out from the others.

Kevin also discusses the phenomenon of U.S publishers contracting to offshore companies who, in turn, subcontract back to U.S. small businesses.  You’re right. It’s pure craziness.  Read the rest of Kevin’s article here.