CALDEIRÃO DE BOLSA

Exemplo espectacular, Nuno

Queres mais casos? O que há aqui em São Paulo de casos desses é brutal.
Eu dei explicações e aulas de reforço, de inglês, a pessoas de uma multinacional americana do ramo da consultadoria de marketing.
O objectivo era que o staff local podesse dominar melhor o idioma e assim substituir os colegas americanos que a esta hora já devem ter sido demitidos, pois ganhavam 5 vezes mais do que os brasileiros.
Tanto quanto sei, estes passaram a elaborar estratégias para empresas americanas, ficando apenas o "assignement leader" nos EUA a orientar o esquema, por estar em contacto com as realidades no terreno.

É sim a Globalização

até mais
dj

É um dos principais factores da Globalização crescente...
Os postos de trabalho vão ser criados onde é mais barato. e podem ser coisas tão complexas como fábricas inteiras ou postos de trabalho individuais...

Um exemplo simples e que eu nunca me tinha apercebido até ser confrontado com ele...

Um dos grandes problemas num dos centros médicos de Indianapollis era a falta de profisssionais de radiologia a trabalharem à noite. Depois de pensarem como podiam resolver isso, decidiram contratar um especialista Indiano, que vive e trabalha em Bogotá.
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Este negócio é óptimo para o médico (trabalha durante o dia, recebe 10 vezes mais do que se estivesse a trabalhar num hospital indiano) e resolve os problemas do hospital (para além de que sai mais barato pois o ordenado é muito menos do que pagassem a um médico aqui nos estados unidos).

Com este exemplo queria demonstrar que a globalização pode afectar o trabalho de qquer pessoa. E que a maioria dos empregos podem ser feitos à distância... especialmente se isso for mais barato... e que nem mesmo os serviços de saúde estão seguros como foi escrito pelo Philipp Harper

Um abraço
Nunofaustino

....as Millions of jobs are sent overseas in the coming decade!

One of the most unsettling truths about the job market today can be found in two seemingly insignificant recent announcements by high-tech powerhouses Oracle and Hewlett-Packard.
Software giant Oracle (ORCL, news, msgs) said it's moving 2,000 developer jobs from the United States to India, doubling the number of developers it has on payroll there. Then Hewlett-Packard (HPQ, news, msgs) announced plans to close a customer-service operation in Florida and send the operation's 1,200 jobs overseas, again to India.

Though negligible when compared to the sheer numbers of job losses in manufacturing, the shifts by two technology companies are alarming for what they likely foretell: no less than the relocation of millions of high-end technology and service jobs from this country to less expensive foreign venues. In the process, there will be a redefining of what constitutes “safe” employment in America.

It’s one thing to see a labor-intensive industry such as textile manufacturing shift to foreign soil, especially when the process has been going on for decades. It’s quite another thing to watch the United States lose jobs that require highly educated workers and the support of a sophisticated technological infrastructure.

While current unemployment of about 6% isn't high by historical standards, there's no denying this trend toward job exportation.

The next generation of vulnerable jobs A study by Forrester Research predicts that U.S. companies will transfer 3.3 million service jobs overseas by 2015, compared with just 102,000 jobs shifted in 2000. Meanwhile, the payroll associated with those jobs will rise from $4 billion to more than $136 billion, according to Forrester projections.

The early job exports are predominantly in the areas of information technology (including software and product development), customer service, back-office accounting and sales. Other major U.S. corporations that have sent service jobs overseas, where wage rates can be as much as 50% lower, include:

Dell (DELL, news, msgs), which opened a customer-support center for its American market in India.

Delta Air Lines , which established reservations operations in India and the Philippines.

American International Group , which set up a processing operation in the Philippines to handle claims from its American General Life subsidiary. As the trend gathers steam, Forrester predicts, other and more sophisticated types of knowledge-based work also will be exported.

The bottom line, says John Challenger, CEO of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, the Chicago-based outplacement firm: “It’s false to think the only jobs that could go overseas are low-skilled jobs that pay low wages.”

5 safer sectors

The employment picture does have a bright side, though: plenty of good jobs in growing sectors are essentially unexportable.

Most are in services industries that figure to be among the fastest growing segments of the U.S. economy in coming decades. These industries run the gamut from fast-food server to physician, from security guard to bank president, and they can be found with employers both large and small.

Challenger identifies five sectors with an especially low risk of exportation:

Health care. “You can’t go overseas to see a doctor or nurse or get physical therapy,” Challenger points out. The aging of America’s population makes health care a good long-term career bet, he adds, singling out medical transcription and nursing as two particularly hot areas.

Other in-person services. These are the jobs, like those in health care, that require a face-to-face interaction between provider and client. They are spun off by almost every human activity and interest. Teaching and training “of all kinds” constitutes one potential growth area, Challenger says, because “education is being thought of as more of a life-long thing.”

Real estate. Just as land is not exportable, neither are many of the activities involved in its development. In addition to real estate service, the category also includes residential and commercial construction and the burgeoning home-improvement industry.

Financial services. As usual, it makes sense to follow the money. America’s vast capital holdings have spawned entire industries dedicated to their preservation and growth. Like the money itself, the jobs associated with it will be kept at home.

Security. One outgrowth of the war on terrorism is increased demand for all types of security and military personnel. “I see a lot more of this being needed over the next 20 years,” Challenger says.

The services sector, in particular, is approaching red-hot status. General hiring in the services sector will be 22% greater on campuses this year than last, according to a recent survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, made up of college and university career counselors. And the most aggressive recruiters, says Bill Currin, director of Wake Forest University’s Office of Career Services, are those from financial services companies.

Currin also notes that while government hiring is projected to be down this year, a worker shortage is developing at the federal level that will become acute in the next few years.

Hot jobs for the short run Projections by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics provide additional clues as to where the jobs will be in coming years.

Of this group, the two software engineering jobs would seem to be the most susceptible to eventual relocation overseas. The two non-tech positions -- home-care aides and medical assistants -- are the least so.

When measuring the total numbers of new jobs created, the top 10 skew heavily toward in-person kinds of service jobs; food preparation and restaurant work, customer service, nursing, retail sales, and office and clerical work are among the occupations that dominate. Computer support and applications-software engineering are the only tech categories represented.

Where technology jobs are concerned, it’s important to distinguish rapid job creation from an inability to be exported. As more countries achieve parity in their technology infrastructures, they could be magnets for jobs that currently are U.S.-based, depending on differentials in labor costs.

An ignored jobs source Another potential source of export-proof jobs -- one that perhaps is being overlooked -- is America’s small-business community.

While the BLS payroll survey indicates that 1.1 million jobs have been lost since the U.S. economy began to pull out of recession in the final quarter of 2001, its household survey indicates a gain of 1.4 million jobs.

This discrepancy may be attributable to the fact that the payroll survey often fails to capture self-employed workers or those who labor for the smallest companies. The household tally, by contrast, does account for such jobs.

So while looking for work that doesn’t travel well, job seekers would do well to think small.

By: Philipp Harper/Title Damon Vickers