Just the discussion and/or rumors about a possible outsourcing has bad effects. The impact to the motivation, decisions and daily work of software developers and middle management is in most of the cases disastrous. Unfortunately, in a lot of organizations the top management is not aware of this negative impact or they just don’t care.
One problem is, that the higher management can’t see the direct impact this de-motivation and the fears of the employees. There are just negative the long term effects on productivity, quality and maybe worse results in the yearly satisfaction surveys.
To give a better understanding of the what happens, I’d like to tell you a short story (or let’s call it case studies).
