Outsourcing and Offshoring
IT Jobs Outlook, From Dept. of Labor
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 a job seeker or a recruitment effort by an employer or recruiter be most fruitful?
Some answers are available from the mind-bogglingly massive website maintained [...]
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
Pastoral
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 [...]