Outsourcing and Offshoring
IT Jobs Outlook, From Dept. of Labor
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What IT jobs will remain stateside despite the offshoring of many?
What IT specialties will be the fastest growing in coming years?
Where in the US might an IT job search by [...]
George Participates in Fast Company’s BlogJam with Post on Workplace Trends
Fast Company magazine’s blog, FC NOW, has long honored this blog with a spot in its blogroll.
Last week, I was delighted to be asked to contribute one or more posts to FC NOW’s BlogJam 2006.
In the rush of various other activities, including seeing my daughter off to college for the first time, [...]
The Legal Risks of Hiring Temps And Outsourcing Work: What You Don’t Know Can Really Hurt You
Ah, welcome to work in the 21st century. Where the notion of hiring a full-time, “regular” employee seems less and less common. Instead, companies hire temporary workers, contract employees, or offshore their work to another country.
And don’t think YOU are safe; today there is even a story in cnn.com about how investment banking is [...]
Government Contractors Go “Offshore” for Tech Workers: to Rural America
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Originally uploaded by Linda’s Manymuses.
The Washington Post reports at length: “Mining Coal Country for Tech Workers; Economics, Politics Send Contractors Into Southwest Virginia”
LEBANON, Va. — In this town of 3,300 people, cow pastures encase the local high school, churches outnumber nightclubs 14 to zero and [...]
Outsourcing Legal Work (to India or to the Midwest?)
Patent Baristas is a wonderfully designed and executed blawg by a pair of Cincinnati IP (intellectual property) lawyers. Check it out for the coffee theme, even if you don’t give a hoot about patents and IP.
In a recent post, they addressed recent discussions of the outsourcing of legal research to India, which is reported [...]
Observations on Fading Boundaries Between Blue and White Collar Work
Does the blue-collar white-collar dichotomy have any meaning today? Will supply and demand push wages and benefits for traditional blue-collar workers in some occupations to or above those for many white-collar workers? Will unions have better luck with white-collar recruits?
A recent Wall Street Journal article described union organizing of “worried and grouchy engineers, [...]
Patriotic Alternative to Offshoring
We no longer hear the pre-presidential-election rhetoric about offshoring American jobs (famously Kerry’s colorful epithet:“Benedict Arnold CEOs.”)
And as long as the labor market stats are looking fairly good, with emerging shortages in certain skill areas, this issue will likely remain below the media radar.
It is, however, a real business issue for companies [...]
