I worked for a company that moved a major product from being manufactured in Canada to Mexico. At the meeting where everyone was laid off the manager had the n

I worked for a company that moved a major product from being manufactured in Canada to Mexico. At the meeting where everyone was laid off the manager had the nerve to tell people they are moving the product because they estimate they can save 5%-10% of the manufacturing cost. 5 years later manufacturing was moved back to Canada after it ended up being more expensive and the quality was lower. OTOH there was another product that was successfully built in China but it involved a complete redesign and was essentially a different product. There's definitely more to this than meets the eye and the decisions weren't always motivated by pure economics. Sometimes managers decided to move something to China just because everyone was doing it and they were under pressure to do so. Not because it was the right thing for their business. Managers making bad or short term decisions isn't exactly a new thing, their incentives/motivation varies.