Talking About The Morality Of Outsourcing

But in the end, isn’t it the decision between two grown, individual people, the employer and the employee?

I always try my best to make the cooperation with a virtual assistant be as much of a win win situation as possible.

Anything beyond that feels like it is a little too much to ask, if you want my personal opinon.

I was sure, that the freelancers wouldn’t do this work, if it wouldn’t be worth it and better paid than other jobs. After all this is a free market.

I’ve been traveling a lot and went to Bali once. The money exchange rate is 1 Euro = 11.000 Rupiah. For 11.000 Rupiah I was able to go to a good restaurant and buy myself a dinner with dessert and drinks. In Germany you most of the times don’t even get a lousy scoop of icecream for 1 Euro!

But anyway I find it very interesting what you as a freelancer think about all this. I hope to hear more! =)

For example you have a shop near the corner of your home but you do not buy any vegetables from this shop. Instead you prefer to buy it from another shop that fairly has a long distance than this shop because there you find some fresh vegetables at more comparative rates.

As you said that you went to Bali for travelling. Is it morally correct that you spend a lot of money on your travelling especially when you are spending this money out of your country? I mean there would be many places within Germany that you could have consider traveling.

I think it’s always fair wherever you go for travelling. After all its your money and you have all the rights to spend your money as per your will.

In my opinion it’s your right to keep your benefits at top of the priority unless it’s not illegal.

Nevertheless, Great discussion to argue! I am loving it 🙂

Only recently we had a popular vote in my City wether or not our airport needs a third runway. 55% of the people said it doesn’t and so it’s not gonna be built. Instead the City will put the money in the extention of the citys public transport system.
I think this is a good thing in times of climate change, environmental pollution and all…

I’m grateful for the good public transport system we have in Germany. I will use it after my university graduation to do a morally correct 2-3month travel all over Germany! 😉 I’m so looking forward to that! There’s much in my own country I haven’t seen yet.

Actually I think it doesn’t matter whether I spend my money in Germany, Bali or another country. People can need it everywhere. But I do think it matters how we get to all these places on earth we so love to see… If I’d hat the time I’d just walk everywhere. 😛
But brilliant we can talk now via Phone and Interent around the globe without doing so much as one step.^^ (sitting on my desk)

I find it sometimes even hypocritical if someone wants to tell me where to spend my own money. Especially under the argument of morals.

If what I’m doing is unethical or immoral, I want to know about this. This is a free blog, and if a freelancer from anywhere wanted to join the discussion and tell me “Outsourcing is frigging bad!” – then he is free to do so!

As I see it, I’m building opportunities for two grown up people: my virtual assistant and me.

He makes some money to support his studies. More importantly, he grabs the opportunity to learn tons of stuff from me.

And I profit from his hard work to get my projects (this website, other stuff) running as smoothly and beautifully as possible.

We agreed on the price. What could be wrong about this?

But let’s face it, it’s a win-win situation. Contractors like us really get a very competitive rate compared to what is being offered in our locality. It also creates a positive connection and long term relationship between/among the parties involved.

Outsourcing can be argued as a cause for unemployment in an economy, by hiring people from foreign countries effects economy in a negative way and strips hundreds to thousands of domestic jobs, especially the skilled and semi-skilled workers.

Freelancing, therefore, comes into play, being a form of outsourcing, it creats employment to those that are unemployed on the other hand. Any skilled or unskilled can seek for jobs based on their criteria at freelancing still being very competitive.

Due to the development of technology, the world is shrinking day by day leaving less time with more and more work. A physical workplace is considered a burden for an organization when productivity is concerned over the expenditure.

Employers are more towards result orientation rather than task based. Therefore, anything that makes the job quicker, easier and cheaper will be more preferrable.

The modern research says that traditional jobs are moving towards outsourcing to have a niche market. The first to be on outsourcing being US, now the growth is not only in the USA but also in Europe and Latin America. In the USA hot spots include Hawaii, North Carolina and Tennessee and also rural parts of the USA also experienced a boom.

Skilled professionals like manufacturing designers (+241%), architects (+198%) and family attorneys (+179%) are joining the online work community faster than ever with triple-digit increases compared to Q2 last year. Engineering is another job category defying the conventional market with skills like Chemical Engineering (+182%), Electrical Engineering (+126%) and Civil Engineering (+100%) increasing exponentially year over year. This is extracted from a recent newspaper.

Therefore, there seemed nothing in the grounds of ethics as Francis highlighted that when both the client and the contractor agree on a contract based on positive terms, both gets rewarded.