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Chapter One Case: The World Is Flat—Thomas Friedman

Do you agree or disagree with Friedman’s assessment that the world is flat? Be sure to

justify your answer.

It is hard to argue that the world has not ‘flattened’ out in the last 15-20 years. The

question regards the extend of such flattening and the nuances involved in global marketplaces. I

agree with Friedman’s assessment that the world is flat; however, I do not think the flattening

process is complete or simple in practice, an assessment that Friedman himself makes in chapter

12 of his book “The Unflat World” (Friendmen, 2005). Carmel and Gefen take on Friedman’s

thesis in the world of offshore programming and find that ”purchasing power parity,” the metric

used to compare costs across sometimes volatile currency markets, does give advantages to

offshore bidders who are more likely to have lower costs or at least are more likely to continue

doing work for cheap (Gefen & Carmel, 2008, p. 369). Two nuances found, however, were

language barriers that caused greater overhead costs for managing offshore contracts and

previous contracts the reinforced relationships for future work (Gefen & Carmel, 2008). They

also found that American’s are far more likely in the west to engage in offshoring, whereas non-

English speaking countries are less likely to engage in offshoring (Gefen & Carmel, 2008).

What are the potential impacts of a flat world for a student performing a job search?

The metaphor of a ‘flat world’ assumes that barriers are removed geographically and that

the world is essentially ‘small.’ Previously, job searches required one to often go door-to-door

handing out resumes to hiring managers. This was a larger marketplace for job searching. In a

flat world, few companies accept face-to-face interaction as a prerequisite to interviewing.

Furthermore, remote work all over the world is used by firms to add talent to the value chain.

However, a student in the west now must compete with job searchers in the east and across
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domestic markets. Everything is now online, from applications to phone screening interviews.

One’s personality attributes begin to matter less and less for getting interviews. Instead, one must

create a digital persona that will attract recruiters to invest resources in a face-to-face discussion.

References

Friedman, T. L. (2005). The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century (1st ed.).

Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Gefen, D., & Carmel, E. (2008). Is the World Really Flat? A Look at Offshoring at an Online

Programming Marketplace. MIS Quarterly, 32(2), 367–384. https://doi-

org.libproxy.calbaptist.edu/10.2307/25148844
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