>>>Hi,
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>>>> And while you might make big dollars today
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>>>That's the point, it's dollars. <g> Currently the pay raises in India (over 14% last year), the US dollar exchange rate and the long term perspective aren't really in favor of aggressive out sourcing as they were a few years ago.
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>>Hence the reason Thomasville furniture just announced they were relocating their manufacturing back here from overseas and hiring 100 new workers. They relocated it overseas only 3 years ago...
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>Now the problem will be whether they'll find 100 workers who know the job, or are they looking for just a 100 cheap drones? Really, what's the salary range for these workers then vs now (adjusted for inflation and devaluation... recalculated into € or CA$, if possible)?
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>I think many businesses have fired their knowledge bases over the last decade, for either outsourcing or to reduce the cost before the IPO... well anything for profit, right? Now that the toy is broken, can it be pieced together? Do they still have people who know how to organize production, or will they have to bring them from China? I've heard they have pretty experienced guys there ;).

In this case, seeing as there are still numerous furniture factories in the area, they will steal ($) a couple of very experienced production managers and hire the rest from the either the experienced laborers still here but not employed in the field (at a lower cost than before) due to the jobs going overseas or train new employees (at a lower cost as well).