Are American workers at risk of losing their jobs? Damn right they are. Particularly if they pursued what they thought were safe jobs in today’s commerce.
When American workers lost their blue-collar jobs they stepped up to the plate and educated themselves in the technologies that they were told would assure them security. Sadly, corporate […]

With industry researchers predicting a major shakeout of the offshore outsourcing market over the next several years - particularly in India, the world’s largest offshore outsourcing market - US companies are facing the challenge of finding a partner that can stand the test of time. According to a recent report by independent market analyst firm […]

The argument for offshore outsourcing begins with a basic assumption: There are masses of high-quality IT workers available in places such as India, China, and the Philippines at low cost. Yet what worries business-technology managers most about sending work abroad is poor quality and high costs.
That’s because there are so many ways an […]

Make no mistake about it, offshore outsourcing has a bad rap. No one likes the idea of exporting jobs to another country. But, then again, the U.S. government is not doing nearly enough to foster, attract, or retain top IT talent, at least not according to Intel CEO Craig Barrett and HP chief Carly Fiorina. […]

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PRIVACY TAKES A BACKSEAT
David Lazarus
Friday, October 24, 2003
?2003 San Francisco Chronicle | Feedback
URL: sfgate.com/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/24/BUG6U2I81K1.DTL
On Wednesday, I wrote how a Pakistani transcriber threatened UCSF Medical Center with posting patients’ medical records online unless she received more money. That incident should send a shiver through anyone who has ever visited a doctor, which is everyone. […]

WASHINGTON — As U.S. companies send more high-tech work overseas, they are creating a “downward pressure on salaries” that may help slow American job losses, a technology industry leader told Congress on Monday.
Indeed, U.S. workers may have to get used to lower wages, said Harris Miller, president of the Information Technology Association of America.
Unlike the […]

Some of the largest financial services firms in the country are banding together to develop a set of best practices for moving their real-time IT processes offshore.
These companies, in a sector that’s collectively an aggressive user of low-cost offshore IT services, aim to reduce the risk of shifting live operations, including production application support, to […]