Ban aims to keep jobs by state contractors from going offshore.
Trying to stem the tide of jobs going to foreign countries, the Assembly approved a bill Thursday that would ban state contractors from offshoring jobs.
The bill would prohibit contracts such as the one California has with a company operating a call center in […]

Mark Hodges, chief executive of outsourcing advisory firm Equaterra, has a sobering declaration:
“You’re complacent if you think your job is safe from competition. If you’re worried about that you shouldn’t live in a capitalist society.”
Yikes.
Many white-collar jobs have shifted outside the U.S. in the past several years, prompting fears that a broad swath of […]

The outsourcing issue may soon explode upon the political scene. As an indicator, an executive of Forrester Research, an independent technology research company in Cambridge, Mass., told Lou Dobbs of CNN the other night that businesses are making a mad dash to outsource as many jobs as possible before any kind of political fallout leads […]

After three-and-a-half grim years of spending cuts, the global securities industry is expected to spend $71.5 billion on information technology (IT) in 2004, according to new research from TowerGroup, which is being presented at its annual conference in Boston today.
As the U.S. economy recovers and returns to a revenue-growth mode, buy-side and sell-side firms are […]

Once we acknowledge the problem of a slow, jobless recovery, we must assess its cause and, even more important, its solution.
That companies are offshoring work at a growing rate is certainly true. That offshore outsourcing, which began decades ago in manufacturing, is now expanding to include some of the most highly skilled jobs we […]

The law, signed by Gov. Phil Bredesen, makes Tennessee the first state to offer businesses an incentive for not sending data-entry and call-center work out of the country.
Gov. Phil Bredesen has signed a law that may have made Tennessee the first state to give businesses an incentive for not outsourcing data-entry and call-center work to […]

In a new report on outsourcing, Forrester predicts that job losses will remain a political lightning rod, and the potential for bad PR “will force more companies underground and into an offshore ‘witness-protection program.’”
Forrester Research has revised upwards its previous — and controversial — 2002 year end projection that 3.3 million high-tech and computer-related […]