How do we nurture and train our won junior staff in-house when production work is now being executed offshore?
Each firm comes to terms with the amount and type of work it will offshore. In some cases that might be 5% of the firm’s production work; in other cases, more than 50%. In each case, core production staff are maintained and nurtured in-house in order to ensure the evolution and propagation of firm culture needed to guarantee the longevity of the practice. There are many factors which can influence the amount of work to be offshored: the nature of the work itself, the quality and capabilities of the service provider, the communication and organizational strengths of project architects on both sides of the ocean, etc. Going forward, architects working in the United States, rather than being replaced by architects working overseas, will instead as a part of their basic training be educated in proper procedures for offshoring production work, as they were when CAD products were introduced 15-20 years ago. In fact, we are not aware of any firm that we have worked with actively having dismis
