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The time to plan your transition from one outsourcing partner to another is at the beginning of a contract, according to this Computerworld article . It says a vendor should be contractually ... More >
EMC is suing to keep former executive David Donatelli from taking a job at Hewlett-Packard, reports The Boston Globe . Donatelli was reported to have resigned suddenly earlier this week a... More >
Companies are learning better how to use incentives and penalties with outsourcing to achieve better performance, according to this Computerworld story. It quotes Bob Mathers, a principal ... More >
Meager raises -- if any at all -- were the norm in InformationWeek's annual salary survey, based on the responses of 12,410 IT professionals in the United States. It found even more fragment... More >
After struggling with image problems from border violence and drug-related crime, swine flu certainly isn't helping Mexico win friends in need of outsourcing, reports InfoWorld . It's the l... More >
After admitting an error in counting votes from its February shareholders meeting, Apple will give stockholders a "say on pay," reports The San Jose Mercury News . The newspaper had pressed... More >
Todd Bishop at TechFlash points out that Web site Glassdoor, which provides salary and other information for top companies, has added a section on their interview processes. He says job candi... More >
Adding the study of immigrant labor, research at the University of Maryland runs counter to the widely held perception that the availability of foreign tech workers encourages companies to push sa... More >
In a piece on TMCNet.com , Ewan Macaulay of IQ Business Group urges looking beyond price to determine when it makes sense to outsource business processes. He adds in questions about corpora... More >
In a column on ZDNet Asia , Mark Kobayashi-Hillary argues that cloud-based services pose a bigger threat to tech jobs than offshoring ever did. He's the director of the UK National Outsourc... More >
A new study says immigrants who come to the United States on work or trainee visas tend to become more productive than U.S.-born workers, reports The Wall Street Journal . The research, by ... More >
IBM has landed a contract to manage human resources functions for the consumer products giant Unilever in 19 Latin American countries, reports Business in the Burbs. Financial terms of the contract... More >
The number of large outsourcing contracts -- those worth at least $25 million -- dropped in the first quarter, according to consultancy TPI. There were 141 such contracts valued at $19 billi... More >
Top executives from EDS are bailing one year after the IT services company was bought out by Hewlett-Packard , reports Information Age . It says EDS’s head of finance Tom Haubenstricker, HR ... More >
So much for limiting the foreign workers that bailed-out banks can hire. Though some senators were pushing for a total ban, the final legislation just made it harder for these financial inst... More >
A report on the future of outsourcing finds Egypt the big winner in its look at up-and-coming destinations, reports Computerworld . The study "Beyond BRIC" was conducted by the London Schoo... More >
More than 1,000 students from 70 countries have been chosen to work with mentor organizations on more than 150 open source projects as part of Google's Summer of Code, reports Network World . &nbs... More >
Delta Air Lines is bringing its call centers back to the United States, a continuing trend among U.S. businesses. The Atlanta Journal Constitution quotes Delta CEO Richard Anderson as sayin... More >
A Gartner report on outsourcing is taking morphing in various ways on the Internet. The India-centric site Economic Times gleans from the report that India's business-process outsourcing ind... More >
Sometimes the best answer to outsourcing is to bring it back in-house. That was the decision made by University of California at San Diego Medical Center after a consultant helped the hospital evalu... More >
Barron's blogger Eric Savitz points to the difference between what Best Buy says and what it does in regard to its employees. A recent company press release for store openings states: The com... More >
The Indian government has approved the bid by Tech Mahindra to buy a controlling stake of troubled Satyam, reports Network World . Tech Mahindra earlier this week won bidding for 31 perce... More >
Big banks taking federal bailouts have found a way around language in the federal stimulus bill banning them from hiring foreign workers. The Wall Street Journal reports J.P. Morgan Chase, Ci... More >
Though many people are seeking a solution to the isolation of telecommuting, as I wrote about Tuesday , offering coworking space as a business model doesn't always work out. TechFlash reports... More >
Yahoo is reportedly preparing a new round of layoffs , its first under new CEO Carol Bartz, reports Reuters . The announcement is expected Tuesday when it reports first-quarter results. The ... More >
Indian outsourcer Infosys Technologies is still hiring, though it gave a glum outlook for this fiscal year. The company plans to hire 18,000 people between now and the end of next March, reports N... More >
Being a remote worker takes on a whole new meaning for Aliza Sherman , a blogger for Web Worker Daily, who writes from her home in Tok, Alaska. She writes about the difficulties with broadband for r... More >
Tech jobs in Silicon Valley are taking a hit in this downturn. According to an analysis by The San Jose Mercury News , 21 percent of all jobs lost in the valley during the first two months of the y... More >
Microsoft has made good on its pledge to try to improve worker training in the United States. As part of its Elevate America program announced in February, it is offering 30,000 vouchers for free c... More >
The Associated Press looks at the rise of Latin America as an outsourcing destination in this piece in The Boston Globe. It says the industry is finding cheap labor, workers with good English... More >
In a continuation of its "Room for Debate" feature, The New York Times uses the case of a Google engineer who lives in Canada because his wife does not have a U.S. work visa to illustrate how U.S. ... More >
IBM plans to move thousands of jobs from Western Europe to locations with cheaper labor such as Eastern Europe, China, India and South America, according to The Observer . The story, carrie... More >
IBM and Bharti Airtel are celebrating the halfway point in a 10-year contract of Big Blue managing the Indian telecom's IT. The original $750 million deal has grown to $2.5 billion, reports E... More >
Despite the global downturn, India's big outsourcing companies are continuing their practice of doling out bonuses when employees meet stated goals. In fact, according to Economic Times , the... More >
IT Business Edge's Ann All wrote Wednesday that the usual torrent of workers seeking H-1B visas seems to have ebbed this year and the Los Angeles Times confirms that. The five-day applicat... More >
Despite having recently announced that it would eliminate up to 5,000 jobs across the board, Microsoft has signed a $170 million, five-year contract with India’s HCL for outsourcing work for its on... More >
At a time when more companies say they feel government pressure to keep jobs in the United States , this CIO.com piece in The New York Times looks at whether outsourcing is really cost-effective. ... More >
InfoWorld reports that there has been a “significant increase” in unemployment rates among the computer and engineering fields. First-quarter labor statistics show that the jobless rate for these oc... More >
While, of course, everything is blamed on the economy, there seems to be a definite trend away from giant outsourcing deals , reports Computerworld . IT Business Edge's Ann All noted softne... More >
In its "Room for Debate" feature, The New York Times asks six experts, "Do We Need Foreign Technology Workers?" Among them is Vivek Wadhwa of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke Univers... More >
In a follow-up to a previous article, InfoWorld offers the amusing " Even dirtier IT jobs." It would probably play better if this weren't such a painful topic overall , but the piece has its charm... More >
Alcatel-Lucent has been shopping around for contracts to outsource its global IT division, according to Reuters , citing an account in a French newspaper. A seven-year contract with the company coul... More >
Student loan company Sallie Mae plans to bring its operations back from offshore locations , adding 2,000 jobs in call centers, information technology and operations support during the next 18 month... More >
ReadingEagle.com reports that layoffs have not had a huge effect on the tech industry. Even though daily reports of layoffs make top news headlines, most of the cuts are in other industries. ... More >
Scotland is poised to become a great alternative outsourcing destination alongside Eastern Europe and India, but its Scottish Executive and other bodies have not sufficiently promoted the country’s a... More >
Xerox has signed a six-year, $100 million contract with India’s HCL to provide data center management, says Network World . HCL will manage Xerox’s nine data centers located in the United States and... More >
Though the trade group TechAmerica reported earlier this week that the tech sector is faring better than most in this economy, somehow that seemed questionable. On the same day that the U.S.... More >
As of May 1, IBM will no longer reimburse home-based workers for their Internet service, reports InformationWeek . The company said the reimbursement was a holdover from the 1990s, when Int... More >
Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith, who just wrote a blog post on the company's support for the H-1B visa program, says Microsoft will seek substantially fewer visas for the next year, reports ... More >
Though there's no word on how such things are measured, a University of Melbourne study has shown that people who look at Facebook, Twitter and such at work are about 9 percent more productive tha... More >
IBM has withdrawn a patent application for a so-called "outsourcing machine," reports The Economic Times . Big Blue submitted, then withdrew, a patent application for a similar system in 2006. &nb... More >
As the H-1B application period opens , Microsoft is reiterating its support for the program , reports TechFlash . That's despite the heat it took from U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley earlier thi... More >
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