The economy may be bouncing back, but the IT job market is lagging behind. So says “America’s High Tech Bust,” a September 2004 report from the Center for Urban Economic Development of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Authors Snigdha Srivastava and Nik Theodore found that the discrepancy between the rapidly growing economy and the […]

Euphemism is alive and well again when it comes to axing jobs in America.
For much of the past two years, the business world has been happy to trumpet the benefits of sending technology work and other tasks offshore to lower-cost labor markets such as India and Russia. But as labor advocates and politicians have […]

A new government report indicates that offshore outsourcing could hurt IT employment growth over the next decade.
But the study, released today by the U.S. Government Accountability Office at the request of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, is sprinkled with caveats and qualifiers because government data can’t provide a complete picture of the economic […]

Among those considering a bid is U.S. private-equity firm Texas Pacific Group, which has had a long relationship with GE, it said, adding that GE provided the financing for Texas Pacific’s first deal, its purchase of Continental Airlines. Other investment firms and outsourcing companies have looked at the business during the past year, including Warburg […]

Remember the vintage 1960s slogan, “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem?” Like all things retro suddenly hip, it’s an apt phrase for our times, particularly in regard to the obsession with global outsourcing and its negative implications for U.S. workers.
For most companies, international outsourcing is not part of the […]

India’s outsourcing industry is expected to face a shortage of 262,000 professionals by 2012. The government “can help by introducing foreign languages in schools and also teach communication skills to students, which will help them gain jobs in the outsourcing sector,” said Kiran Karnik, president of an industry group.
India’s outsourcing and IT research sectors […]

Of the five antioutsourcing bills that passed the Legislature, the most far-reaching is AB 1829, by Assemblywoman Carol Liu, D-South Pasadena. It would prohibit the movement of state work offshore. There would be exceptions made for work that can’t be done properly in the United States.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger likes to promote a “Buy California” […]