July 20, 2004

Following the jobs

Everytime we write about a Jacksonville company laying off technology workers, we hear from plenty of employees concerned about outsourcing, the new tendency of many companies to ship jobs to other countries.

This, however, is the first time we've heard of someone shipping themselves to another country because the jobs are there.

At one table, five friends from Singapore sat with a 6-foot-3, 23-year-old anomaly: Joshua Bornstein, perhaps the only American among the Bangalore-based employees of Infosys Technologies and one of the few Americans of his generation in Bangalore.

For all the complaints about American jobs migrating here through outsourcing, few Americans have thought to follow them. Eight months ago, Josh Bornstein did.

Posted by tgibbons at July 20, 2004 12:47 PM