Maybe things will improve when we finally stumble upon some tech that needs developing that has a great potential to be profitable and takes a lot of people to develop. And when many companies fire tens of thousands of people all at once I basically take it as a sign that the tech sector as a whole is taking a big downturn. I think this is more or less okay when it happens, if a company does massive layoffs I take it more as a sign that they are not producing much anymore. The company itself wasn't doing anything innovative either and there wasn't leadership to put the Canadian guys skills to good use.Įventually most of those guys were hired by Intel and all got to work on exciting new technology that none of us were qualified to do. But I can say that the project itself was reaching a stagnating phase where not much new work needed to be done, and we were mostly doing maintenance/bug fixing. We took all their work, the whole experience was bittersweet, some of the folks there took it well others less so. When I lived in a relatively affordable-workforce central European country we once had to do a knowledge transfer from our Canadian office which all got laid off. I've never been hit by offshoring but I have been on the other end of it. Again, Canada is a MUCH bigger source of job diversion for the industry than India is. I would really examine your own biases here as to why you're so hellbent on focusing on India here, and not any of the other countries that are actually taking the jobs away from them. And if she's laid off, then she's no longer in the industry either, so you can't really claim that as a statement piece either. Is it possible that your girlfriend is not a reliable source of information here? Because I have multiple friends who are fairly senior at both DWA Glendale and Bangalore, and coupled with the news, you're clearly not lining up with anything they're saying. And we did work in the US for several years, so your point is moot. Īnd so what if I don't work directly in the industry anymore? I'm very involved in it still, and my partner is still in the industry. In fact, Dreamworks is a key example of a studio that is outsourcing their work to Canada, which is what spurred their most recent layoffs. It also never resulted in job reductions in North America, but rather more films per year. They haven't increased that outsourcing within the last few years, and as I mentioned have been reducing it so your points regarding the current state of things isn't very valid. They set up their Indian studios in 2008 and have had portions of their work done there and in China (now Pearl) for years now. There's very little Core Animation, lighting or rendering work for most of the major studios done there, with the exception of MPCĭreamworks has been scaling back their India operations but has been included Indian animation in their work for over a decade and a half now. Largely, the main jobs that get outsourced to India is stuff like match move and rotoscoping. It's especially exasperating because you're not even involved in said industry, outside of your partner, whereas I am actively every day. You can do with that info what you will, but it sounds like you don't actually want to hear an answer that contradicts your own and are doubling down on something that is not borne out of the reality of where the work is being done right now. Animation is affected to a much smaller degree and several studios in Canada are hiring in reasonable numbers at the moment. There's so many other factors that I already mentioned (lowered production, strikes) that play in first. It's definitely a lot lower, but it's not due to outsourcing. However that isn't to say studios aren't hiring which was what you asked about, and I answered. Canada and Europe are much bigger source of offshoring for the US. Again, I'm pushing back on the conflation of layoffs and jobs being offshored to India. It appears you're taking your own internal biases about India outsourcing and applying it more expansively. The largest company to do so is MPC, but for feature and TV work, it hasn't really impacted job locality. I think you're greatly overestimating how many jobs have moved to India.
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