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Out with Out Sourcing in Businesses

With out sourcing quickly becoming the norm in many of the biggest businesses in America and the rest of the world, it is not surprising that many are focusing on ensuring that Americans retain their jobs. Custody Calculations announced that they are going to spend in excess of $125.00 an hour to keep American jobs in America when they awarded the development of their new and highly anticipated automated web site dealing with family law to Cloud Creek Systems Inc, an authorized Oracle software developer in Agoura, California, instead of going offshore for $18.00 an hour.

In making the statement, Catherine MacWillie, the Chief Executive Officer, stated that: America is a great country and each of us has a responsibility to act in her best interest and not just to look at the bottom line of a profit and loss statement in making decisions as a company, as executive officers and as individuals. In fact we are acting in direct opposition to the advice of several business consultants, vendors and investors whom ultimately we did not accept funding from so that we could keep jobs here in the United States. This has placed a great hardship on us as a company with our limited financial resources because we are just launching after ten years of research and two years in web site development.

This decision is all the more difficult when you consider that the purpose of this company is to reduce the trauma, drama and devastation of divorce on families and children. So we could easily have argued that the benefits of putting Custody Calculations in place sooner and with less cost would have been worth the savings until we were on more secure footing financially and otherwise. But we feel we can do both, support jobs in America and launch our web site.