Who Wins and Who Loses as Jobs Move Overseas?
Read through the article if you want, but be sure to read page #2, where Mr. M. Eric Johnson, director of Tuck’s Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College expounds:
“It’s all about innovation and productivity. As long as we maintain those two engines, we’ll continue to have a very high standard of living. Out in the Bay Area there are plenty of folks who would love to create a little bit of protectionism around their I.T. jobs, but we are far better off letting a lot of those jobs go. Low-skill jobs like coding are moving offshore and what’s left in their place are more advanced project management jobs.”
This bit of idiocy earns Mr. Johnson the PHB of the Week award. It’s especially scary since he works in some capacity (if you can decipher his title) at Dartmouth’s business school. Is he teaching his students that programmers are “low-skill” and management is a higher-skilled position?
I wonder if he’d advocate taking this view of the medical world as well–doctors and nurses could be replaced by outsourced workers, since they’re obviously “low-skilled” positions. We’ll retain the more advanced hospital management positions and no one will be hurt.
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Kyle
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Jeremy
