Outsourcing might be helping India's economy, but it is doing nothing to help the nation's workers. While headhunters in the UAE complain that Indian wages are rising so fast that they can't lure people to become expats, other sector workers don't seem to be having such a great time.

Merinews reports that while in the US consumers benefit from low costs and higher standards, it is happening at the expense of Indian workers. The article said that Indians are being forced to work long hours for low wages so that multinational companies benefit from outsource office work. It names and shames the telephone company Cingular as one of the multinationals which forces workers to take on jobs they would never get US workers to do.

It cites the case of Rahul Sharma, who lives in Mumbai and works from 8pm until 5am. He works through the night all week, and gets no weekends off with no holidays either. It also quotes Sabita Acharaya, an industrial engineering graduate student who worked for an IT outsourcing firm in India before coming to Texas A&M University in USA to do her Masters in Industrial Engineering. She said that the pay in India is not in proportion to the amount of work required.  Nor does it help your career to work on such projects. X

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