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Fighting Outsourcing 'could Spark Trade War'
News Countries that resort to protectionism end up hampering innovation and crippling their industries, which leads to lower economic growth and, ultimately, higher unemployment. Congress has held several hearings about the outsourcing of IT jobs, and a...
[January 8, 2004, 9:15]
Sending Code Offshore 'vital For Profits'
News It's a heated topic, with unemployment rising for US-based computer scientists and mathematicians, and questions emerging about the United States losing its technical leadership. Make a big splash," recommended Romesh Wadhwani, chairman of Symphony...
[July 22, 2003, 14:10]
Outsourcing 'not Something To Get Excited About' - Analyst
News Countries that resort to protectionism end up hampering innovation and crippling their industries, which leads to lower economic growth and, ultimately, higher unemployment. Hayward's remarks come amidst rising global controversy over the loss of...
[January 9, 2004, 14:05]
HP Sets Up Indian Call Centre
News Technology leaders have warned that protectionist measures lead to lower economic growth and higher unemployment. Hewlett-Packard has set up a contact centre in India to support US customers who use HP consumer products, in another sign that...
[February 12, 2004, 7:35]
Outsourcing Conference Draws Protests
News Now, with unemployment in the United States lingering at decade-highs despite recent indications that the economy is pulling out of its global slump, the outsourcing debate has grown louder. According to research firm Gartner, more than 300 of the...
[September 17, 2003, 9:25]
Lone File-swapper Takes On Recording Industry
Talkback I say UNEMPLOYMENT has skyrocketed in the last 4 years. I say that there currently is NO TAX incured on companies when they use off shore companies (i.e INDIA). I say that in my last 2 IT jobs I have had to train my India counterpart my job before...
[October 18, 2003, 6:31]
Outsourcing Backlash Will Fade - Gartner
News Gartner principal analyst Rolf Jester, quoted in the India-based Business Standard news daily, said the current unhappiness felt by US workers and politicians about IT jobs being relocated to India will ebb as the global economy improves and...
[July 23, 2003, 7:56]
Indiana Cancels India Outsourcing Deal
News TCS America, a subsidiary of India's top-ranking software and services company, Tata Consultancy Services, was selected to upgrade the unemployment insurance computer system of the Indiana Department of Workforce Development earlier this year.
[November 27, 2003, 9:00]
Outsourcing May Create Indian Talent Shortage
News According to market research firm Gartner, the outsourcing backlash against India will fade away in two years as the global economy improves and unemployment levels decrease. What's on the mind of executives running the booming Indian IT firms kept...
[August 1, 2003, 10:05]
India Calls For Allies To Fight Backlash
News The Computer Systems Policy Project, backed by companies including Intel, Dell and Hewlett-Packard, last week said that "countries that resort to protectionism end up hampering innovation and crippling their industries, which leads to lower...
[January 14, 2004, 7:45]
High-tech's Role In The Peace Process
News The nation's gross domestic product dropped last year by 2.4 percent, and unemployment now hovers around 11 percent. During that period, Israel earned a spot alongside the likes of India, China and Taiwan as an emerging tech hotbed.
[August 4, 2003, 16:10]
The Future Of Call Centres
News Call centres have primarily been sited in UK regions where there was high unemployment, arising from the decline in traditional manufacturing and production businesses. It is the lower value work that is being migrated to the internet or being...
[February 17, 2003, 11:40]
Talent Still Sought Despite Economic Gloom
News There is a rising unemployment rate," admitted Monster.com Asia Pacific chief executive Libby Christie, noting the huge numbers of layoffs in recent months. In Asia Pacific, the firm operates five country-specific sites in Singapore, Australia, New...
[September 6, 2001, 10:14]
Salary Outlook Remains Grim
News Earlier this year, economist Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute found that inflation-adjusted wages for professional and technical workers had fallen and that unemployment for mathematicians and computer scientists had risen to its...
[November 7, 2003, 8:10]
E-govt Projects 'lack Value'
News IT vendors promise cost savings from reductions in staff, but in many cases, governments find they can't fire anyone because of strong labour unions, as well as an unwillingness to add to a country's unemployment rolls, said Harris.
[August 27, 2003, 8:50]
Politicians Propose Punitive Solution To Loss Of US Jobs
News The current US unemployment rate of around 5.7 percent is not especially high by historical standards. They've seen their jobs going over to India by the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. In a move designed to make US companies think twice...
[March 4, 2004, 7:30]
Tech Agency Scouts For 'talent'
News But will the model survive in an economy where the unemployment rate is at an eight-year high and where many companies are still scaling back tech spending? We're looking for skills that aren't subject to constantly being outsourced to India," he...
[January 17, 2003, 15:11]
Outsourced Jobs 'will Return'
News Others acknowledged that, taken too far, the push to move work offshore could backfire by bumping up unemployment and thereby sapping domestic demand. Companies in India generally operate under strict confidentiality rules, said Harris Miller...
[October 22, 2003, 11:40]
France Talks Up Its Tech Prospects
News In an economy with 10 percent unemployment, it is difficult to say you want to make it easier to conduct layoffs," Gaymard said. To attract students from India, Japan and elsewhere, France has begun to teach university courses in the language from...
[May 25, 2005, 9:25]
Ageing Americans 'need Outsourcing' - India
Talkback Americans can also blame themselves for their own greed which eventually led them to unemployment. I work for a large recruiting firm and it was not too long ago that several U.S.computer programmers were demanding rates and salaries that were out...
[September 19, 2004, 20:02]
