Bringing the Jobs Homes

Many large US software companies have been releasing a large portion of their jobs off shore to countries like India, and the trend has become larger of the past few years. It is estimated that almost a million jobs, which has tripled in size since 2003. The reasons why companies do this, is because it is often cheaper to hire labor overseas.
On the contrary, Michael Fields, former president of Oracle USA and currently the owner of a software company named Kana, has brought jobs back to the US with a technique called "backshoring." Although Fields' company brings in over 60 million dollars a year he claims that software companies of his size should not send jobs to India because it does not make economic sense. Smaller software companies are not able to open their own large facilities, and must give their work to outside contractors. The problem with this is that there is no loyalty with the contractors and the company at home. Now the company at home has little control of what actually happens overseas. Many of the larger firms are finding this out, and many of their techniques are being released because there is no form of privacy.
Another reason that Fields would rather have the jobs stay at home, is that with the software industry, it is a team effort to reach the final goal, and he feels that it is best when his entire team can work together under one roof. The team builds relationships and Fields finds much less mistakes and better performance. When sending jobs off shore, Fields has found there to be much higher costs and longer delivery times. Also, when keeping the team together, Fields has found there to be higher productivity, while only needing about a quarter of the engineers as needed before. With this recent success of backshoring, Fields predicts that this may become a new method for software companies to explore to help raise productivity and lower costs throughout Silicon Valley.