The threat of outsourcing has placed a high amount of stress on hard-working professionals. Your job may be outsourced as your employer experiences financial troubles or expands into global markets. Your feeling of helplessness needs to be subdued as you make efforts to keep your job from being outsourced.
Instructions
Prevent the Outsourcing of Your Job
1. Perform your own review of job assessments and collect other documents that highlight your strengths and weaknesses as an employee. You should know as much as possible about your employer's view of your performance to create a compelling argument against outsourcing.
2. Research the wages and benefits of similar positions in other companies. Your studies may reveal that companies pay higher wages for similar work. You can use this information to show that your employer is getting a deal by employing you at your current wage.
3. Highlight the various costs of outsourcing in general in your efforts to keep your job from being outsourced. You should look at production, facilities and initial investments made by competing companies to demonstrate the risks of outsourcing in a crowded marketplace.
4. Schedule a meeting with your immediate supervisor to test out your presentation about outsourcing. Your relationship with a supervisor is more intimate than any contacts you have made with a company's upper management. Note any suggestions made by your supervisor before you proceed to higher levels of management.
5. Gather fellow employees to keep jobs from being outsourced through pooled resources. You should prepare a group presentation to other workers and management, in addition to individual meetings with supervisors, to gain support for maintaining the status quo.
6. Focus on economic and business appeals to upper management rather than emotional appeals to get the best reaction. You should take a few days after hearing about potential outsourcing to cool off and collect ideas that could save your job.
7. Show the audience, for your arguments against outsourcing, comparable companies that failed due to outsourcing. You will need to look through business journals and newspapers over the past 15 years to look for anecdotal evidence that would put outsourcing efforts into context.
