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Offshoring Fears Hit US IT Workers, But Unemployment Is Down
Talkback Is the number of tech workers actually dropping, or are the HTML coders, script "developers", and other such inexperienced juniors just finally realizing they aren't "computer people" like some tech schools promised?
[October 7, 2004, 17:31]
US Report: Old Cambridge Targets High-tech Success
News This year, according to a study by economic development consultants Segal, Quince, and Wicksteed Ltd.there are 1,200 high-tech companies -counting bio-tech and hardware, software and services - employing 32,000 or more workers.
[December 1, 1998, 10:18]
US High-tech Visa Quota Already Met
News US employers do not have to attest that they sought US workers to fill the job before applying for a visa, but they are supposed to pay the prevailing wage to the guest worker. Critics say the programme hurts US workers by taking jobs away from...
[February 19, 2004, 13:39]
Offshoring Fears Hit US IT Workers, But Unemployment Is Down
News Technology services companies say they're hiring, and unemployment rates have dropped for tech workers. It examines sectors such as IT, health care and manufacturing and is based on surveys of about 9,000 US workers.
[October 7, 2004, 11:20]
News Roundup: Sacking Shadow Haunts IT Workers
News Bad news in the mobile phone sector, combined with a US economic slowdown, has meant many of the UK's high-tech workers have been facing redundancy. Demand for US tech workers nearly halves Evidence shows, however, there is actually an acute...
[April 3, 2001, 9:49]
Fighting Outsourcing 'could Spark Trade War'
News Feeling political pressure from Congress over the loss of US tech jobs to offshore workers, the Computer Systems Policy Project on Wednesday released a report stressing the need to keep international doors open so that domestic companies can...
[January 8, 2004, 9:15]
HP Sets Up Indian Call Centre
News The operation has not meant a loss of jobs for US workers, Sarkar said. HP is one of many technology companies that have moved a variety of high-skilled tasks to countries such as China and India, which offer technically skilled workers and lower...
[February 12, 2004, 7:35]
Bush Hints Door May Open For More Tech Workers
News If so, the stage will be set for another round of debates about the practice of temporarily importing guest workers for tech tasks -- already a sore spot for critics of the H-1B and L-1 visa programmes.
[January 21, 2004, 13:59]
IT Workers In US 'less Anxious' About Job Market
News Unemployment rates have dropped for tech workers, but so have the numbers of people employed in tech occupations -- suggesting that some workers may be leaving the field, possibly because they're discouraged.
[September 2, 2004, 9:50]
Statistics Mask Tough Job Market
News It may just mean that unemployed tech workers are giving up fruitless job searches. While the Hudson employment confidence measure found tech workers slightly more optimistic than the general work force, it also found them slightly less satisfied...
[August 19, 2004, 16:40]
Salary Outlook Remains Grim
News Critics also blame the outsourcing of tech work to countries such as India and the presence of foreign workers in the United States on L-1 and H-1B visas. The starting salaries of US information technology workers are projected to fall an average...
[November 7, 2003, 8:10]
Industry Turnaround Fails To Spur Employment
News Meanwhile, workers in the tech sector have taken a hit in the pocketbook. Since 2000, the number of workers in IT industries has declined by 11.2 percent to 4.8 million workers, compared with a decline of less than 2 percent in all private...
[December 18, 2003, 8:20]
Outsourcing 'not Something To Get Excited About' - Analyst
News Tech heavyweights in the US were this week forced to come out fighting against political pressure from Congress over the loss of US tech jobs to offshore workers. Concern has grown in the US as an increasing number of tech companies lay off...
[January 9, 2004, 14:05]
News Roundup: April Brings Showers Of Job Losses
News While the British economy is still experiencing growth, workers this side of the Atlantic are not immune from the US economic downturn. Compaq has already laid off some 850 staff, including contract workers, from its operations north of the border...
[April 19, 2001, 13:02]
End Of The Road For Motorola's Bathgate Factory
News Over 3,000 workers will lose their jobs when the plant closes today, three months after its demise was confirmed. Faced with furious unions and workers, Tony Blair took the rare step of making a phone call to Motorola president Chris Galvin during...
[July 23, 2001, 14:03]
Microsoft 'offshoring Some Longhorn Development'
News But critics say it costs US workers jobs and threatens the country's long-term tech leadership. Microsoft denied that work on key pieces of Longhorn is being done by third-party companies but declined to comment on the number of workers assigned to...
[July 29, 2004, 12:55]
Tata Extends IBM Partnership
News On the other hand, defenders of sending work offshore say it ultimately helps the US economy and US workers. IBM, for example, has thousands of workers in India and is acquiring a 6,000-person Indian company that offers transaction processing and...
[June 25, 2004, 12:05]
UK Urged To Import More Skilled IT Workers
News The UK must do more to attract foreign skilled workers if homegrown hi-tech knowledge industries are to flourish in an era of increasing globalisation. The Work Foundation report also points out that availability of skilled workers can influence...
[June 2, 2008, 8:55]
IT Pay: Women Get Short End Of Stick
News In the South, women tech workers earn 90 percent of men's salary. But women with ten or more years of experience earned an average of 9 percent less than male workers with equivalent experience and skills.
[January 17, 2001, 10:13]
EDS Outsources IT Work To New Zealand
News Critics of the shift of IT work overseas have raised questions about the skill levels of Indian programmers and the effect of "offshoring," or the moving of work overseas, on US workers. An advocacy group, the Washington Alliance of Technology...
[March 11, 2003, 14:46]
