Sunday, January 24, 2010

Many companies today are doing whatever they can to save money, in order to make sure that their businesses are as profitable as possible. Companies are known for outsourcing jobs to other countries where labor is cheaper. I actually know someone who had to go to India to train her replacement, crazy right. The question is has crowdsourcing, become a new area of outsourcing?

It sounds like if you are in the field of graphic design and or photography, you have a lot of cheap competition. They may not offer the quality that you do, but it comes close and doesn’t cost nearly as much. What baffles my mind is that there are people who are out their “freelancing” and charging so little for their talents. Is it out of desperation to just earn some cash, or possibly a hobby that people have discovered can make them money?

Whatever your opinion is on crowdsourcing it seems to me that individuals in the “arts” industry need to reevaluate their current situation.

References:

"Is Crowdsourcing Evil? The Design Community Weighs In | Epicenter | Wired.com"

Posted by Brittany Macomber at 11:36 PM

3 comments:

  1. Ben JardinesJanuary 25, 2010 at 1:05 AM

    I'd assume a lot of the freelancers do this work as both a hobby and an extra source of income that can be completed from the comfort of their home. Personally, I am not interested in pursuing those jobs - but I am certainly glad that others are.

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  2. mjd2009January 25, 2010 at 11:22 AM

    Art is an interesting career choice. Much like the music business, there are so many people who have many talents, making the industry competitive. With the growing age of technology, it is making the art industry even more difficult because now you don't even need to know how to draw: you can just create images by clicking a few buttons on the computer.

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  3. Linsey SledgeJanuary 26, 2010 at 10:33 AM

    I think companies are genius for using crowd sourcing.
    Grouper Eye on CareerSource outsources projects to compete for jobs. The person with the best project gets the job; but for companies, they earn the rights to the project paying almost nothing instead of having to pay millions of dollars for it.
    If Grouper Eye was formatted more like crowdsourcing, companies would get even more projects and profit off others work at hardly any cost.

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