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Leading bank Barclays is expected to become the latest major company to move jobs to India by shifting its administrative functions.
The bank has already moved 550 processing jobs to India, affecting 250 posts at London. However, only 40 British staff left Barclays as a result of the switch. The rest were redeployed elsewhere in […]
Archive for December, 2003
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- elKore: The problem is - most companies underestimate the cost of outsourced IT development, thinking that $...
read more - AV: Every large culture has sub-cultures and it breaks down to the level of family culture. It is useles...
read more - Mr. Customer: This is complete crap! Ever try to talk to some Hodgi in India? They freakin' can't speak English an...
read more - Ian Ippolito: I've noticed this trend on a micro-basis on the Rent a Coder site...but it's been happening a while....
read more - Ian Ippolito: One prominent cultural clash I've seen is when a buyer in the U.S. asks a coder in India, "how is it...
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Monday, December 29th, 2003, Permalink
Monday, December 29th, 2003, Permalink
Sending jobs offshore will generate even more angst next year
As I have previously observed, 2004 won’t be much different from 2003 in terms of the trends that dominate the technology landscape. In this column, I offer my outlook on offshore outsourcing, on-demand computing, Web services and the impact of Wi-Fi in the coming year. […]
Saturday, December 27th, 2003, Permalink
WAL-MART, it seems, is the corporate Pied Piper of modern global capitalism, leading the way toward an economic future of admirable efficiency and low prices but also painful change for many workers and communities. And 2003 was the year the “Wal-Martization of the economy” really came into view. The retailing powerhouse toppled more rivals and […]
Saturday, December 27th, 2003, Permalink
THEY are threatening the natural order and may take more scalps as the new year progresses. India and China are the Hibs and Dunfermline of the corporate world, upsetting the Old Firm of Western Europe and the US, which have had things their own way until now.
As the world?s economies emerge from a three-year […]
Saturday, December 27th, 2003, Permalink
The ghost of presidential elections past will raise its protectionist head in 2004.
Just as Ross Perot’s famous “sucking sound” remark fueled opposition a decade ago to free trade, so today there is rising concern about service jobs fleeing the country through offshore outsourcing.
The conflicting political and economic issues involved in the trend will surely […]
Saturday, December 27th, 2003, Permalink
Solidcore Systems appears the quintessential Silicon Valley start-up, with laptop-lugging, cube-dwelling workers huddling in glass conference rooms and jotting sales strategies on white boards.
But within a year, most of the engineers who make the company’s security software will be on the other side of the globe. Even the chief financial officer, chief technology officer and […]
Thursday, December 25th, 2003, Permalink
When IT workers and employers in the U.S. and the U.K. talk about offshore outsourcing, they might as well be speaking different languages. The employers say they’re cutting costs, but their employees hear that as cutting jobs.
One thing that’s saved employers and employees in continental Europe from similar misunderstandings is that they really do speak […]