Indian IT, “You're Fired”
The Indian IT situation has reached somewhat of a breaking point, hence the current situation unfolding.<p>The real low level stuff is now being increasingly automated thus eliminating the need for cheap labor to do such tasks. At the same time the Indian firms never quite managed to broadly move up the value chain into more innovative and cutting edge areas, which is still very much the realm of local offices of their western customers. As a result there&#x27;s an increasing oversupply of cheap but not all that good IT labor now flooding the market.<p>Fair or not there&#x27;s also an increasingly negitive stigma in the west over Indian IT shops. Between growing domestic protectionism and the stereotypical &quot;Indian help desk experience&quot; that became the poster child for bad management decisions, I&#x27;m seeing a lot of firms bring even some of the lower level work back onshore--abeit to lower cost regions in their country (think Nebraska call centers now).