Mercury News | 12/19/2003 | Offshoring labor savings don't add up: "Offshoring labor savings don't add up
By Mike Cassidy
Mercury News

Uzair Sattar had heard all about the beauty of moving work overseas: cheap labor, round-the-clock operations, bigger profits.
Offshoring was the thing to do, the wave of the future.
So, when he launched his business software company two years ago, he hired three engineers in Hyderabad, India, to develop his product. He quickly expanded to seven engineers.

``Then things didn't go so right,'' says Sattar, chief executive of Proteligent of Sunnyvale.

There have been a gusher of stories about tech companies moving thousands of U.S. jobs to India, China and other countries where labor is cheap. But it turns out, offshoring brings with it its own business problems."