“India has always had brilliant, educated people. Indians are taking the lead in colonising cyberspace.”
Tech-trend forecaster Paul Saffo of the Institute for the Future in Menlo Park, California
?Cummins is counting on Indian engineers to help write the software that will make its engines perform more efficiently. It is hiring Indians to do computer […]

Workers stage rally at company AGM against offshoring of ‘thousands’ of US jobs
IBM employees have staged a rally at the computer giant’s annual general meeting to protest against the offshore outsourcing of US-based jobs.
Chanting “Offshore the CEO,” staff and former employees demonstrated against IBM’s increased focus on outsourcing and cost cutting.
The demonstration was organised by […]

Even as the prospect of high-skilled American jobs moving to low-wage countries like India ignites hot political debate, some entrepreneurs are finding that India’s vaunted high-technology work force is not always as effective as advertised.
“For three years we tried all kinds of models, but nothing has worked so far,” said the co-founder and chief […]

Experts admit they are having a hard time trying to project where the economy is going. Yet it promises to be one of the key issues in this year’s Presidential election. The man who speaks for 40 million union families was in San Francisco today. He was optimistic, while sounding an alarm. ABC7’s MONEYScope reporter, […]

HIGH rates of attrition and absenteeism are by far the biggest operational challenges faced by Indian third-party business process outsourcing (BPO) vendors.
A BPO survey report by the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce and Ernst & Young says that attrition averages 40 per cent for voice and 25 per cent for non-voice services and that absenteeism […]

Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano’s recent moves to stop the foreign outsourcing of state government work is garnering her substantial media attention both in the United States and India — which is home to many offshore call centers and back office operations.
Napolitano’s office wants to stop state work from doing off-shore after finding out that […]

The jobless recovery won’t be jobless after all, the economists now say.
They say productivity has grown so fast, it simply can’t grow further without more workers. They explain that companies expanding overseas often create new jobs here. They argue that Silicon Valley’s innovation will produce jobs as surely as dark clouds produce rain.
It’s all so […]