Is offshore labor all that great a bargin?

I guess it depends on your circumstances, and who you ask.

2008-Aug: Infoworld: Cheap labor? You get what you pay for

What does a company give up when it decides to outsource? It gives up some form of control. In our case we gave up the control of our software development. You may say that you don't really give up control because you write the requirements and you sign the checks. But who ultimately becomes the subject matter experts? Who knows the software like the back of their hands? Not you. Not today. Not ever.

http://weblog.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=http://weblog.infoworld.com/offtherecord/archives/2008/08/cheap_labor_you.html

2008-Jun: Vnunet: Cheap Indian labor leads to lower productivity

The lower productivity level of the Indian providers is shown by their smaller revenue per employee compared to global services giants IBM, Accenture and EDS.

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2223966/indian-providers-reduce

2008-Jun: Study in India shows that 85% of job applicants give fake education documents

In the first study of its kind in India, an employee background screening company has found that among the job aspirants who cheat, nearly 85 percent resort to giving fake educational documents.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Many_job_aspirants_give_fake_educational_documents/articleshow/3129453.cms

2008-Jun: Blog: “You Americans are too honest”

And Raj said, “You Americans are too honest. We lie to get the job, and when we get there, we help each other out. And if none of us there know how to do it, then we just move on to the next job.”

http://numen.wordpress.com/2007/08/03/you-americans-are-too-honest/