This article was published in Saturday's SMH. It's basically a Bio on Matt Barrie, the guy behind Freelancer.
The article itself is an interesting read, though of particular interest are the comments regarding the trends toward offshoring. We've already seen a lot of low skill, low pay jobs (such as manufacturing, call centre and accounts) go off shore, but the current assessment is that this was just the first brick in the wall. A lot more of what are known as the knowledge workers (e.g. accountants, lawyers, web developers, etc) are all likely to follow a similar path.
When the Aussie dollar is running at $US1.06 and also smashing it against the Euro, it paints a slightly bleak outlook for the Australian job market in the medium term.
Right now you can actually outsource a call centre to England and save money........
Full article here:
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/the-aussie-making-a-motza-from-offshoring-whitecollar-jobs-20120220-1thyc.html
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