Response from: Josh Breinlinger    (01/22/08 12:41pm)

Good insights on this 'reverse flow' trend. I run the blog over at oDesk and published some statistics on global hiring rates in US, India, Russia, and Philippines.

You can see the data at http://www.odesk.com/blog.


Cheers,
-Josh

Response from: Justin    (01/25/08 10:58am)

This theme is cropping up in a lot of blogs and publications. One collateral benefit is that it would generally amount to a greening of the supply chain as well, I would imagine. It'd be interesting to do a high level analysis of how the "retracting" of the supply chain argument is advanced in relation to currency and oil price fluctuations.

Anyway, thanks for nothing this as it's an interesting development to watch for this year, for sure.

Response from: Arthur    (02/27/08 8:43am)

Good to see people are starting to talk about it. I think that those that are just starting to head to China already missed the boat.

For some of them, the motto seems to be "Buy Low Cost Country - No matter what it costs!" There may still be opportunities for saving out of LCC's - but a company should better have a good "reverse plan" in place.

In addition to the factors mentioned above, at most 5-8 years from now governments are going to get really serious about global warming and doing something about it (till now they've only generated hot air). And consumers may ask what is a product's CO2 footprint - not just production and distribution, but the entire supply chain.