Companies who have engaged in offshoring love that they can now keep programmers crunching out code around the clock, but the consequences are starting to wear through, as reported in this article from the Houston Chronicle. Can you imagine how hard it would be to basically shift an entire project over to a whole new team every 12 hours? According to this article, domestic IT staff have felt the impact in the form of “midnight teleconferences, 6 a.m. video meetings and the annoying ‘pling’ of instant messages and twittering cell phones all night long.” Stuff like this leaves even a 50-hour work week in the dust, resulting in hard and fast burnout for employees.

Of course, if this cycle continues, as domestic employees get burned out faster, then the labor pool shrinks, and companies feel compelled to push even more jobs overseas.