Internet has revolutionized communication techniques and the ways of doing business and rendering services. It has turned the world into a global village. Entrepreneurs are utilizing this unique facility in saving office costs on space, equipment, manpower and electricity by hiring home workers online.
Many business giants have established work stations in remote areas to achieve reduction in personnel, rental and other administrative costs.
English in south Asian countries like India, Pakistan and Bangladesh is official language and widely known. Many newspapers, magazines and books are published in these countries in English language which is compulsorily taught in schools and colleges. In the recent past there has been exodus of workers, engineers, doctors and IT specialists from these countries to Middle Easte as well to UK, Canada, USA, New Zealand, Africa and Australia because they get salaries and wages there many times higher than their own country where costs and standards of living are comparatively very low. Further, unemployment rates in these countries are very high.
According to press reports almost 20 % staff in Internet industry in USA comes from South Asia which is the biggest exporter of software to US and other English speaking countries. Many software houses in the West assign jobs to the programmers living in South Asia and market that in their brand name. Many technical books about computers and software programs have been written by South Asian writers which are sold widely in US and other countries. Popular web base email program “hotmail‘ was conceived and launched by an Indian working in US That was acquired by Microsoft by paying several million dollars.
Many cost conscious publishers, web masters and web designers in US entrust many of their jobs online to South Asian workers and integrate their work in their programs, website, ezines etc. Beside the jobs relating to computer and internet certain jobs relating accounting, auditing business transactions can be assigned. Beside, textiles, leather products, surgical goods, sports goods like golf balls, football etc. are manufactured in Pakistan and sold by European companies in their brand name.
Shah N. Khan is editor of Weekly Fraternity Briefs and also supervises Shah Associates – a group working as Internet Marketing Consultants and web designers. They also publish Managers’ Weekly eDigest. You can subscribes free to any of his weeklies and also get information about hiring workers online from his web site http://www.eport2.net/shah/serviceonline.html
