In 2007 in college, my class group and I did a presentation promoting outsourcing (an assigned task). But before we did that, we took a deep look at the reasons

In 2007 in college, my class group and I did a presentation promoting outsourcing (an assigned task). But before we did that, we took a deep look at the reasons for outsourcing. The kinds of info we came across blew our minds and the minds of our audience. The number one reason for outsourcing: it was too difficult to find high-level workers (college degree, managers, technical IT stuff) to work in factories, simply because they did not want to work in a factory "when they grew up". In a rank of nations where finding high-level factory workers was difficult, Germany was #1 and the United States was #8. The countries on the bottom of the list were China and India, respectively. If you took a look at the top 10 jobs most difficult to fill in the U.S., Sales Associate was number 1 and high-level factory-based professions were 8 of the top 10. All info was gathered from a blog post on taleo.com (bought out by another company) and that information can no longer be found. The second reason for outsourcing: no young person in America wants to spend their time making stupid stuff like pencils and chalks and little american flags . Foreigners would be more than happy to do it though. The reasons for outsourcing is a lot more complicated than money. And there are nations where wage is cheaper than China and India, but were never able to garner so much attention of manufacturers.