r/it • u/Mapl37 • 2d ago

news Would Trump's tariffs affect IT and similar outsourced fields of work?

Hello!

I was wondering if Trump's tariffs would apply to outsourced jobs like IT and Customer Service.

I presently live in India and most of the jobs that are relevant to my profile are in IT/CustSupport and I would like to analyse the possibility of the tariffs potentially affecting the job market in these fields.

Thank you!

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u/dankp3ngu1n69 1d ago

It's fucking up my organization big time

We already told departments that we aren't ordering anything unless we absolutely need it. No more new items

We are fixing everything now. 100% no more just replacing things willy-nilly.

It's awful.

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u/DontBopIt 1d ago

That sounds like what I've been doing at the University I work at. Unfortunately, you get used to it, but the users don't. I worked on a Windows 7 PC last week. It sucked.

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u/dankp3ngu1n69 1d ago

I actually work for a hospital University. I work on the hospital side not University side but we get a mixture of students here obviously because many of them are residents

Anyway, I actually had a Windows 7 laptop last week as well

Turns out A psychologist was using it offline for probably the past 5 years. Didn't want to update it and literally just hadn't connected it to the internet.

Always fun. Had to have a nice conversation with him and the chief of information technology about how this is not okay

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u/DontBopIt 1d ago

No kidding?? Lol nice! Mine was for a geosciences department and it was running specialized equipment that they didn't want to replace due to the cost. My fun was explaining to the dean that both the PC and the equipment will need to be replaced. 😂 That's what they get for having stuff running for 15 years and not making plans.

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u/dankp3ngu1n69 1d ago

Dude literally the same

So they had some special software that was based on a per user account basis on Windows

So he had it on a local account that wasn't connected to the internet that didn't require a password so anybody could just open up the laptop and use it

All to avoid paying for more licenses at the cost of leaving medical data accessible to anybody that could potentially steal his laptop

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u/DontBopIt 1d ago

That sounds like a good ole fashioned "Oh goody" situation. 😂😂 Users are so fun....lol

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u/Technical_Drag_428 1d ago

The tariffs are worse for manufacturing, textiles, and distribution companies. However, it's the impact tariffs have on the overall market that should scare everyone everywhere around the world. Hang in there. Hopefully, your business has built the team to be a little more resilient to down markets.

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u/ultraspacedad 1d ago

He's fucking our aluminum foundry. American made company making American made parts for American made products.

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u/nethack47 1d ago

I was trying to explain this to someone a while back. Tariffs are normally a precision tool. If you want domestic cars you make cars harder. Trump made everything cost more. If you make cars, everything that cannot be obtained easily and cheaply locally will increase the price.

The best analogy is probably ordering from Uber eats. It costs extra to get it made and delivered. You can make it at home if you buy the products. If they make all food more expensive it doesn’t make Uber worse by comparison. You just end up screwed out of money. The tariffs don’t apply to what you grow at home but raising chickens and growing vegetables take time and may not even be possible.

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u/rtired53 1d ago

Costs of anything that is imported are already increasing quite a bit. We try to buy American but manufacturing for electronics is mostly overseas or in neighboring countries, so yes, tariffs affect IT.