A Newspaper in New Zealand will be outsourcing 70 sub editing jobs to Australia. The organization of journalists are strongly condemning the act saying "Assembly-line sub-editing' would compromise the quality and accuracy of news coverage in the country." Please read the news here.
Not everything can effectively be outsourced but newspaper sub-editing should not be so difficult to properly implement. The only concern for me, at this point, is the loss of jobs. Employees are human beings who have worked with the company for a long time and fallen in love with it. On the other hand, business owners have to decide at a certain point. Faced with serious competition, wary stockholders and rising costs, they have to know where savings and better quality can be derived. Right now, conventional wisdom points toward outsourcing. For some businesses, it spells the difference between profitability or loss. Please read a related article here.
Besides, the idea of outsourcing should be seriously considered by everybody. As of now, it is a step upwards for most companies. We all know what failure to move upwards mean. It is actually, a step downwards. As for the displaced employees, the solution to their plight has been discussed in a previous article.
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