The issue may be politically and emotionally charged, but the growing trend of sending U.S. jobs to countries like India isn’t going to stop, several Triangle technology entrepreneurs said last week.

The businessmen weighed in on the practice as part of a panel entitled “Best Practices in Offshore Outsourcing,” sponsored by the Research Triangle Park-based Council for Entrepreneurial Development.

Relativity Technologies co-founder Rich Cronheim told about 40 audience members that it’s not wise to be on the wrong side of offshoring, which he called a “megatrend.”

While the disruption caused by the practice on a community and personal level in the United States is a real issue, offshoring is good for India and other parts of the world, he said.

“On balance, for the globe it’s a good thing,” Cronheim said.

But prejudices have turned offshoring into a moral issue rather than the business decision it actually is, said Michael Eason, vice president of development for Raleigh-based Peopleclick.

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