SB, PB, I agree with you. Some of those jobs are never coming back but it will be very difficult to get companies to change their ways insofar as globalization. It's almost too far gone. A few years back when it looked like my department and maybe my company was going to go kaput we had to train our possible overseas replacements. Somewhat surreal but that's business. Anyone who is not onboard with outsourcing and making the cheapest possible use of labor had better forget about rising in the company hierarchy. It's not happening. I probably should have kept my mouth shut about some things but what can you do...

The only good thing is thanks to a few massive screw-ups companies are starting to realize that getting something quickly or cheaply isn't always better than getting it right. So there is some minor cessation of outsourcing in my field-not much but it is what it is. You have to run faster and faster to stay in the same spot. Most roles that are purely technical and repetitive have been moved out. The people that survive tend to be people with some sort of relational skills with the customer or business leads OR people that are working in tech that's so old that no one overseas is familiar with it.