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If we look back at the current era in about 15-20 years, will we be talking about a revolution when we talk about offshoring? Could offshoring become so ingrained in the way we do business, that it truly changes the way we organize labor on a global scale?<\/p>\n
In a research<\/a>, done by two German researchers last year, I found a statement that does indicate this ‘revolution’:<\/p>\n In een\u00a0onderzoek<\/a>, dat vorig jaar door twee Duitse onderzoekers werd uitgevoerd, vond ik een uitspraak die deze \u2018revolutie\u2019 aangeeft:\u00a0\u2018Meestal brengt offshoring een deling van productieprocessen met zich mee, waardoor bepaalde werknemers concurrentie ervaren van buitenlandse werknemers op het niveau van enkele taken binnen hun firma\u2019s, in plaats van concurrentie op het niveau van goederen die af zijn en tussen firma\u2019s plaats vindt waarbij er dus meerdere soorten werknemers geaffecteerd zijn op een gelijke voet. Offshoring geeft een nieuwe industri\u00eble revolutie aan, gebaseerd op technologische en sociale veranderingen, die de traditionele firma als een \u201corganische solidariteit bij haar leden\u201d ondermijnt. Het is zeker \u00e9\u00e9n van de meer zichtbare keurmerken van deze verandering. Het resultaat is dat veel werknemers nu een veel onzekerdere toekomst voor hun werk zien dan 20 jaar geleden.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n In einer, im letzten Jahr, von zwei Deutschen durchgef\u00fchrtenStudie<\/a>, habe ich eine Aussage gefunden, welche auf diese ‘Revolution’ hindeutet:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n For bigger companies that have bigger projects and processes, offshoring to individuals through a website probably won’t work, because they need teams and continuity. Typically, they outsource the whole project or process to an offshore company. But also here, it is becoming more common to use ‘global staffing’, in which they hire offshore individuals or teams, managed directly by the company.<\/p>\n I believe that in 15 years, we will indeed see the current movement as a revolution. A revolution in the way companies involve people worldwide into their value creation. In the way human beings cooperate. In the way companies attract and keep talent. Offshoring will evolve from ‘outtasking’ and ‘outsourcing’ to ‘engaging talent’. It will not matter where on earth colleagues are located.<\/p>\n Firms will look all over the globe to find the ‘right people’ for any position. People will grow used to having colleagues overseas with whom they communicate through a wire and meet only occasionally. Firms will still try to have ‘organic solidarity among its members’, but with different mechanisms to bind them together, because the members will be spread all over the globe. Organizations will consist of loosely linked networks of individuals and teams located anywhere on earth where people are the best and\/or the cheapest at performing certain tasks.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bridge-global.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/outsourcing1-300x241.jpg\")
Als we over 15-20 jaar terug kijken op de huidige tijd waarin we leven, praten we dan over een revolutie in offshoring? Kan offshoring zo integraal worden aan zakendoen dat het echt de manier waarop we werk organiseren overal ter wereld verandert?<\/strong><\/p>\nOm vi ser tillbaka p\u00e5 den nuvarande eran om en sis\u00e5d\u00e4r 15-20 \u00e5r, kommer vi d\u00e5 att tala om en revolution n\u00e4r vi talar om offshoring? Skulle offshoring kunna bli s\u00e5 pr\u00e4glande f\u00f6r s\u00e4ttet vi g\u00f6r aff\u00e4rer p\u00e5 att det till och med \u00e4ndrar s\u00e4ttet vi organiserar arbete p\u00e5 en global niv\u00e5?<\/div>\nI en\u00a0studie<\/a>\u00a0som genomf\u00f6rdes av tv\u00e5 tyska forskare f\u00f6rra \u00e5ret fann jag ett p\u00e5st\u00e5ende som indikerar en s\u00e5dan revolution:
\n\u2018Typically, o\ufb00shoring comes with an unbundling of production processes, whereby certain workers face competition head on from foreign labor on the level of single tasks within their \ufb01rms, as opposed to competition on the level of \ufb01nished goods which mainly takes place between \ufb01rms, thus affecting di\ufb00erent types of workers on a more equal footing. O\ufb00shoring re\ufb02ects what might be called a new industrial revolution, based on technological as well as social change, that undermines the traditional \ufb01rm as an \u201corganic solidarity among its members\u201d. \u00a0It is certainly among the most ostensible hallmarks of this change. As a result, many workers now perceive a much more precarious job environment than they did 20 years ago.\u2019<\/em><\/div>\n\nWenn wir in ungef\u00e4hr 15-20 Jahren auf die derzeitige \u00c4ra zur\u00fcckschauen, werden wir dann von eine Revolution sprechen, wenn wir \u00fcber Offshoring reden? K\u00f6nnte Offshoring so tief in unser Gesch\u00e4ftleben eingebettet werden, dass es wirklich die Art ver\u00e4ndert, wie wir Arbeit auf einer globalen Skala organisieren?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n‘Typically, o\ufb00shoring comes with an unbundling of production processes, whereby certain workers face competition head on from foreign labor on the level of single tasks within their \ufb01rms, as opposed to competition on the level of \ufb01nished goods which mainly takes place between \ufb01rms, thus affecting di\ufb00erent types of workers on a more equal footing. O\ufb00shoring re\ufb02ects what might be called a new industrial revolution, based on technological as well as social change, that undermines the traditional \ufb01rm as an \u201corganic solidarity among its members\u201d. \u00a0It is certainly among the most ostensible hallmarks of this change. As a result, many workers now perceive a much more precarious job environment than they did 20 years ago.’<\/em><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\nIt is this ‘organic solidarity’ that intrigues me most. In the past, firms consisted of a loyal group of people that worked a big part of their lives for that firm. Today, many organizations outsource projects or processes to external companies, replacing the loyal staff with external suppliers. The above suggests that this replacement also occurs on the task level: If a task can be done by an outsider at a lower rate or more productively, it will be done outside the company.<\/div>\nThis task outsourcing is happening on a large scale already. Sites like elance.com and odesk.com grow in popularity day by day. A few years ago, nobody had heard of it outside the US, but today, I hear references to such sites very frequently. A friend of mine is building his website<\/a> with an Indian programmer from our office, hires an American to optimize his site for Google and a Mexican to call companies in Spain to raise interest for his site.<\/div>\n
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