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Are you struggling to get away from the office, stop thinking about work at the weekends, or give up taking business trips which eat into your weekends? Is your New Year's resolution to strike a better work-life balance? Tim Ferris thinks that the answer is outsourcing. In his book "The Four Hour Workweek" he advocates outsourcing every tedious aspect of your work and your life to the Third World, so that your life can become a permanent holiday. The petrochemical business is already outsourcing sourcing, with numerous companies offering to take over purchasing your chemicals for you. Secretarial and IT skills are routinely outsourced in India. See you on the beach ...
Although once it is all outsourced then none of us will be able to afford to go on the beach, we will be scratching around trying to gain new employment.