Outsourcing

Like downsizing, there is no need to take outsourcing personally. If you’re staring down the barrel of being outsourced, it’s because somewhere, (either the other side of the world in a developing country or just down the road in a developing business), someone will do your job for less. This is not much different from how you’ll shop around before buying something expensive. Labour can come at a discount, even a significant discount. Feel better?
If you do feel better, you are easily fooled.
If you don’t, you are waking up to a reality. Being outsourced (not you, your means of making money) feels like being abandoned, so you will experience the usual feelings: denial, surprise, anger – much like a teenage break-up.  It’s not so bad, but it is. The next thing to do, like the broken-hearted teenager, is to move on, preferably into a role that can’t be outsourced.

Whatever cushy job you have in the West is coveted by the rest – Simon Drake