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Gina Vermiglio, a mechanical engineering student at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, isn’t anxious about finding a job when she graduates in two years. Her circle of friends, including a boyfriend who graduates in December, isn’t worried either.
Vermiglio’s brainy crowd may not be fretting about U.S. engineering jobs moving to India and China, […]
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Monday, March 22nd, 2004, Permalink
Friday, March 19th, 2004, Permalink
“Some 690,000 American jobs were lost to overseas outsourcing in the years 2001-2003, and estimates suggest that 3.3 million service jobs will have gone overseas by 2015. I firmly believe that we can and should slow that trend where possible,” he said.
Friday, March 19th, 2004, Permalink
Gina Vermiglio, a mechanical engineering student at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, isn’t anxious about finding a job when she graduates in two years. Her circle of friends, including a boyfriend who graduates in December, isn’t worried either.
Vermiglio’s brainy crowd may not be fretting about U.S. engineering jobs moving to India and China, […]
Tuesday, March 16th, 2004, Permalink
NEW YORK - Bank of America Corp. (BAC) is planning to cut as many as 13,000 jobs as it completes its acquisition of FleetBoston Financial Corp. (FBF), people familiar with the expense cuts told The Wall Street Journal.
The job cuts would come through layoffs and attrition from the operations of both banks and will […]
Sunday, March 14th, 2004, Permalink
J. Douglas Winter is no political activist.
But he’s feeling the heat of an election year as he engages in his everyday business: helping high-tech companies shift work to China.
Over the past five years, Winter’s firm, Objectiva Software Solutions, has helped a dozen clients nationwide, including several in San Diego, send work to his outpost in […]
Sunday, March 14th, 2004, Permalink
While a lot of hue and cry is going on in the US about offshore outsourcing, another issue that is gaining currency is the availability of visas for software workers. Not long ago, the cap on H1B visa was re-duced from 1,95,000 to 65,000 per year and the quota for the current year is already […]
Sunday, March 14th, 2004, Permalink
Outsourcing of US jobs to Asia is expected to slowdown as the Bush administration comes under heavy fire from opposition Democrats who charge the policy is creating widespread unemployment, analysts say.
The shifting of American jobs offshore, particularly to China, India, South Korea and Southeast Asia, amid sluggish job growth at home has emerged a key […]