Why aren’t we hearing from industry experts who have actually onshored back to the US and know how long/hard it is? Like Flex for example. They helped Apple build a factory in the US. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/20/us/politics/trump-texas-apple-factory.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
And they helped Nike build one in Mexico that eventually didn’t work out https://www.worldfootwear.com/news/nike-flex-partnership-ends/3573.html
Thats just 1 company. There are tons of companies that do this and also companies have tried it themselves.
It blows my mind that no one is bothering to ask these people a breakdown of what it was like to try and onshore. Or maybe I am looking in the wrong places. But instead I see non-business folk playing guessing games with other non-business folk, who have never even seen an assembly line before, on when all the jobs are going to “come back”.
Apparently it took Flex 6 months just to figure out how to automate the Nike logo on shoes. And then once they had that down they realized that there was still just not enough cheap labor compared to Asia and eventually the plant closed.
But their Apple collab worked out. So it would be interesting to hear from people with knowledge on onshoring large corporations how this actually would play out.