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In praise of - outsourcing.

Outsourcing is too often seen as the enemy of the white collar worker.

It's pleasing, then, to hear of an office drone in America – let's call him Bob, because that's the only name the world's media seems to have for him – who outsourced his own computer software job to a company in China. The really clever bit is he was paying them only one-fifth of the six-figure salary he was picking up.

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