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Offshore outsourcing has been a controversial topic during the past year. But so far, the political furor over offshoring has not hurt large Indian tech services firms.
One of the largest of these companies, Infosys Technologies (INFY: Research, Estimates), reported better than expected second-quarter earnings Tuesday morning and gave an upbeat outlook for the third […]
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2004, Permalink
Tuesday, July 13th, 2004, Permalink
In recent months, a handful of big-name companies have decided to return certain offshore work to the U.S. Insurer Conseco recalled its customer service operations as it worked to emerge from bankruptcy. Following complaints about the quality of service, investment bank Lehman Brothers canceled an offshore help desk engagement.
Economics lured Hemant Kurande to look to […]
Friday, July 9th, 2004, Permalink
THE market for worldwide IT services grew 6.2 percent to $569 billion in 2003, up from $536 billion in 2002, according to preliminary results from Gartner. Accelerating activity in offshore outsourcing, in which companies shift jobs across national borders, contributed modestly to the overall growth.
US-based vendors continued to lead the worldwide IT services market, attracting […]
Friday, July 9th, 2004, Permalink
Outsourcing and offshoring have become hot political topics in the United States and the EU. However, this is not the first time that offshoring became a political issue in the United States. One only needs to go back to the mid-1990s when independent presidential candidate Ross Perot colorfully declared that the loss of American jobs […]
Tuesday, July 6th, 2004, Permalink
To oppose offshore outsourcing is to put the providers of a service ahead of the consumers of that service, according to one offshoring expert.
As we pass the middle of 2004, the wave of offshore outsourcing shows no serious signs of subsiding?nor should it, if you listen to certain experts. One of them is author, […]
Tuesday, July 6th, 2004, Permalink
If all your neighbors lose their jobs, you call that an economic recession. If you lose your job, you call it a depression. The same reasoning seems to apply to the enormous attention that computer people are suddenly giving to outsourcing. The fact is that CFOs have always pushed for outsourcing everything associated with the […]
Thursday, July 1st, 2004, Permalink
RACHEL KONRAD
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas Donohue is promoting overseas outsourcing of jobs as a way to boost the economy and even increase employment - a stance that rankles jobless white-collar workers, particularly in the flagging technology industry.
Donohue, speaking Wednesday night to the Commonwealth Club of California, said […]