An article called "Sleepless in Silicon Valley" reports that offshoring is already changing things in Silicon Valley and its not just lost jobs for U.S. citizens. The change has made the production schedule shift to a 24-hour period. Just as U.S. workers end their work day the time clock is just being punched in India or Pakistan. In some cases teams of software engineers are passing products back and forth or one team is error checking and another doing research, etc.
"We keep passing the baton between California and India, and that way we can cram a lot more work into a 24-hour period," said Jeff Hawkey, vice president of hardware engineering, who conducts evening meetings from the office or on his laptop at home. "A lot of nights, I go home, tuck the kids into bed and then get on the conference call."
