Design Outsourcing

Does this sound ridiculous?! American workers outsourcing their own personal work (and their life)!
Is this the future?

This is quite an interesting article from Time magazine about the quality of college education in the US, and how it impacts the job market. Do you think this has a direct relation to companies that outsource jobs overseas?
by Kristi Oloffson
Employers and career experts see a growing problem in American society — an abundance [...]

Do you think that just because your business is small you can’t outsource? There are ways to send your writing, IT tasks and other needs overseas to add efficiency to your enterprise. By doing some prior planning and following some pointers, you can get the quality help you need.
Starting Out
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Outsourcing has become a “charged’ word. It is an important concept to understand because of its business applications (both for corporations and for small businesses) and because of its political implications. The following is intended as a primer on the main topics related to outsourcing. We have included a (hopefully) balanced summary of the “offshoring [...]

Outsourcing — the practice of using outside firms to handle work normally performed within a company — is a familiar concept to many entrepreneurs. Small companies routinely outsource their payroll processing, accounting, distribution, and many other important functions — often because they have no other choice. Many large companies turn to outsourcing to cut costs. [...]

Here’s an old article from Wired magazine about the rise of Crowdsourcing.
Crowdsourcing is a neologism for the act of taking tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing them to a group (crowd) of people or community in the form of an open call. For example, the public may be invited to develop [...]

A good article about Design Outsourcing, from Parametric Technology Corporation (makers of Pro/ENGINEER CAD software. You can visit their website for the full pdf link.
During the past decade, there has been rapid growth of design outsourcing as a key
operational driver for companies to compete globally, increase productivity, and improve
profitability. Manufacturers are transforming their product [...]

Here’s a video about the next major outsourcing destination. The Philippines is known to have good quality education, a multi-cultural ethnic mix, and sensitivity and understanding of the Western culture, having been a Spanish colony for more than 300 years, and an American ally since the end of the 19th century:

Another interesting video that gives you a snapshot of the effects of outsourcing on one country, particularly India.
Have a look and let me know what you think:

Recession slowed growth of design outsourcing in 2008
According to a Gartner survey of 40 vendors offering IC design services, the number of outsourced projects grew more slowly in 2008 compared with the previous year, with survey respondents reporting rapid growth in designs at lagging-edge process nodes.
By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News — Electronic News, 8/17/2009
The [...]