Thirty Days - Outsourcing

Morgan Spurlock's volunteer, a successful computer programmer who lost his lucrative job to outsourcing, travels to India to try to get it back.

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Will he discover the secret of India's success? Or that sending jobs overseas is an unstable gamble?

In the 1980s American corporations realised they could manufacture their goods cheaper in a foreign country and millions of American factory workers were left unemployed.

In the 1990s it was the turn of the white-collar worker, as the advent of the internet allowed companies to fire expensive American employees and hire foreign franchises to run key parts of their businesses. This is outsourcing.

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With its well-educated, English-speaking workforce, India is fast becoming the destination of choice for outsourced jobs in technology and customer services. Cont on P2