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Government Headhunting Plan Under Attack
News The government's decision to attract IT skills by relaxing work permit restrictions on foreign nationals will be no panacea, IT industry leaders have warned. Others also doubted the UK's ability to lure foreign skills.
[March 28, 2000, 16:35]
A Year Ago: Government Headhunting Plan Under Attack
News The government's decision to attract IT skills by relaxing work permit restrictions on foreign nationals will be no panacea, IT industry leaders have warned. Others also doubted the UK's ability to lure foreign skills.
[March 28, 2001, 7:44]
Can A Foreign Assignment Help Your Career?
News There's no doubt that working in a foreign country can be romantic. Many companies that do a significant amount of foreign business insist that their top executives spend at least a year working at one of their foreign divisions.
[June 20, 2002, 9:59]
Outsourcing Conference Draws Protests
News The union also is lobbying politicians to study offshore outsourcing and support legislation that would limit foreign work visas. And tech companies aren't the only ones looking to trim costs by tapping foreign labour markets.
[September 17, 2003, 9:25]
More IT Firms Look Overseas To Cut Costs
News Critics of shifting IT work overseas have raised questions about the skill levels of foreign programmers and the effect on U.S.workers. Giga expects that companies will demand some portion of work be done in a foreign country in almost every major...
[February 21, 2003, 9:56]
Outsourced Jobs 'will Return'
News Executives from Borland Software, BearingPoint and Infosys, and an official from the US Department of Commerce expressed confidence that US companies will eventually reinvest money saved from farming out IT tasks to foreign workers, and expand...
[October 22, 2003, 11:40]
AOL Quietly Shifts Staffing To India
News The total savings from hiring an IT service provider to perform foreign work may be as high as 40 percent to 50 percent, IDC analyst Ned May said. Like Ireland and other foreign countries, India isn't a new frontier for AOL.
[December 23, 2003, 7:35]
Demand For US Immigrant Work Visas Rises In 2001
News Demand for skilled foreign workers reached an all-time high in fiscal 2001 -- despite a recession and massive layoffs of American workers. An increase in H-1B applications from universities and the government may take some heat off the technology...
[January 23, 2002, 15:12]
US Visitor Visas 'ship Middle-class Jobs Offshore'
News Sona Shah, a US citizen and computer programmer, told the committee that a former employer had abused the L-1 and other visas in the course of underpaying foreign guest workers and failing to give US employees work assignments or training.
[February 5, 2004, 11:35]
Chipmakers Stop Wi-Fi Sales To China
News We are particularly concerned that the new rules would require foreign suppliers to enter into joint ventures with Chinese companies and transfer technology to them," the letter stated. However, most of the time these technology standards are...
[March 11, 2004, 13:30]
Monster.com Thinks Again On CV Purge
News The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Washington said it had contacted the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and learned that Monster was not required to alter CVs at all.
[April 28, 2003, 8:18]
US Report: Email Archives May Be Vulnerable
News I'm fairly certain that foreign governments will have built similar machines to this, and are using them to eavesdrop on conversations in the U.S.said Paul Kocher, a member of the team who helped build the machine for the Electronic Frontier...
[July 21, 1998, 6:04]
Greenspan Warns Against Fighting Outsourcing
News He also compared the current trend of companies sending employment overseas to similar situations in the 50s, 60s and 90s, when foreign economic powers such as Japan and Mexico were considered threats to US job security.
[March 15, 2004, 10:45]
Outsourcing To Boom In 2003
News Companies offering information technology outsourcing see lower-cost foreign labour as a key to growth in 2003, market research firm Gartner Dataquest says. Gartner said US-based IT services companies will look to forge more partnerships with their...
[January 31, 2003, 8:24]
Start-up Breeds Better Chips
News Researchers then examine how this huge, lab-generated library of proteins interacts with a foreign substance, often different types of metals. The proteins that don't stick or react to the metal or other foreign substance are washed away.
[August 5, 2004, 11:10]
Bush Hints Door May Open For More Tech Workers
News Details of President Bush's plan to tackle illegal immigration remain fuzzy, but the programme could create a new way for technology employers to bring in foreign workers. The programme would "match willing foreign workers with willing US employers...
[January 21, 2004, 13:59]
Fighting Outsourcing 'could Spark Trade War'
News A growing number of workers in these foreign countries and companies are highly educated, skilled and talented -- a competitive challenge in their own right," the report said. Americans who think that foreign workers are no match for US workers in...
[January 8, 2004, 9:15]
Offshoring: Why The US Still Needs Engineers
News The H-1B visa is the classic visa that a graduating foreign student uses between the student visa and the green card. Should the US do more to attract foreign students, such as Indians or Chinese? But if some of the programming jobs that are lower...
[June 30, 2004, 15:10]
IBM Escalates Outsourcing To India And China
Talkback India has one of the most restricitve business climates for foreign investment in the world. Foreign businessmen are not permitted to own businesses with out Indian partners. Indian firms are free to bid on government contracts and service work.
[December 20, 2003, 20:12]
Foreign Powers Are 'main Cyberthreat' To UK
News Foreign governments are the primary threat to the UK's critical national infrastructure (CNI) because of their hunger for information, according to a government body. Foreign states are probing the CNI for information," said Roger Cummings, the...
[November 22, 2005, 17:40]
