At the Strategic Research Institute’s conference this week on offshore outsourcing, experts and executives are offering their insights on how companies can save money by farming certain jobs overseas.
Outside the Westin Times Square in New York, where the conference is taking place, some people are expressing a totally different view. They’re focused on saving […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - IBM will hire 15,000 new employees in 2004, with an additional 4,500 jobs in the United States, a top executive said Saturday.
“We are going to hire more in the U.S. than we shift” overseas, said Randy MacDonald, IBM’s senior vice president for human resources.
Armonk, New York-based International Business Machines […]

Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark vowed last night to work on preserving software jobs from going overseas to lower-wage countries such as India.
?We will retain the software industry in this country, it?s that simple,?? Clark told more than 300 people jammed into the Alvirne High School cafeteria.
Clark said he would pursue changes in the tax […]

Alan Lacy, CEO of Sears, Roebuck and Co., this week talked about offshore outsourcing and expressed keen interest in the “non-U.S. opportunity” available for outsourcing some IT functions during a general session on retail trends at the National Retail Federation’s annual conference here.
Early in the week, Lacy said he couldn’t predict what changes Sears might […]

Building society plans major UK investment, but does not rule out offshore IT development
Nationwide Building Society has bucked the trend by rejecting offshore options for its call centres, but this will not stop the financial giant looking overseas for IT development work.
The UK’s largest building society is planning a substantial investment programme in new call […]

Outsourcing Information/Frequently Asked Questions from Chubb’s Intranet
Q. Have we considered how the discussion of outsourcing is affecting employee morale?
A. Yes. We always consider employee morale when exploring business opportunities or strategies that could affect IT staff directly.
Many companies, both within and outside our industry, are currently exploring or have explored the feasibility of […]

As Australian telecom giant Telstra announced a major outsourcing deal to India, it received immediate flak from sections that see Australian jobs coming under threat.
The four-year contract would be worth 200 million Australian dollars and would save 75 million dollars in costs for the Australian company. The contract has reportedly been finalised in India […]