convinced that cost considerations should reign as the predominant decision-making factor; others argue that outsourcing means … permanent job loss; and still others believe outsourcing makes U.S. goods and services more competitive in the global … marketplace. We assert that if outsourcing options need to be analyzed in detail with critical objectivity in order to derive …

hard look at cost numbers before embarking on outsourcing. Apart from the cost of labor, equipment, and incidentals, are … needed to address the above types of questions, as well as other outsourcing related questions, such as: * What is the United … States doing to encourage/discourage outsourcing? Are these actions legal under current international trading rules? * Is the …