Your job is not safe. If the company wants to outsource, your job is at risk too.
I have seen so many of them thinking that they are in a safe boat and believing that they could not be replaced.
That is until the next redundacy wave and then they are off the door.
First it was call center people and programmers thought they were too clever to be outsorced. Then programmers were outsourced and IT architects/consultants thought they were safe and couldn't be replaced. Now many IT architects have been made redundant but people think to move to business analysts position to be safe.
Guess what? You are not safe. You are just the next wheel. There is no ending to this process of self-destruction, if the company wants to send off-shore they will eventually do so until the whole process is shifted and destroyed locally (so happened to manufacturing, textile and other sectors).
The only way to be "safer" is to do what you are best at (and eventually start thinking at a plan B/C/D/E/etc).
I have seen so many of them thinking that they are in a safe boat and believing that they could not be replaced.
That is until the next redundacy wave and then they are off the door.
First it was call center people and programmers thought they were too clever to be outsorced. Then programmers were outsourced and IT architects/consultants thought they were safe and couldn't be replaced. Now many IT architects have been made redundant but people think to move to business analysts position to be safe.
Guess what? You are not safe. You are just the next wheel. There is no ending to this process of self-destruction, if the company wants to send off-shore they will eventually do so until the whole process is shifted and destroyed locally (so happened to manufacturing, textile and other sectors).
The only way to be "safer" is to do what you are best at (and eventually start thinking at a plan B/C/D/E/etc).
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