Factories Rethinking Outsourcing Strategies To Bring Manufacturing Back Home
May 29, 2010

With so many jobs being outsourced overseas, there is a rethinking in the U.S. that more jobs should go to American factories. In the last six years, about 6 million jobs have been shipped abroad with most of it going to China and India, as the cost of labor is cheap there. Read more

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IT Outsourcing On the Rise, While Offshoring Plummets
March 30, 2010

According to a major UK business survey, IT outsourcing appears to be a growing trend to UK-based suppliers. Read more

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IT Outsourcing Buffers Outflow of Funds During Recession
March 17, 2010

IT outsourcing continues to be of great concern to many companies. Most firms are interested in doing what they do best and they are not overly concerned about the technicalities of making software. Hence, the practice of IT outsourcing has become a relevant and dominant practice in modern business. Read more

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Bad employers, toxic bosses and RPO vendors take note: The downturn is easing
August 30, 2009

After months and months of news about layoffs and rising unemployment, there are signs that the “Great Recession” might be ending soon (or at least easing) and hence, now is a good time to start considering just how bad it really is right now and what a recovery will mean for workers, employers and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) in particular. Read more

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Futuristic State of Indian BPO Industry
October 6, 2008

BPO sector in India is smarting under the pain of global financial meltdown—it is obvious for the plethora of suspicions, expectations, doubts, and forecasting to emerge and make waves among the industry. The most obvious thing that we can expect is that the Indian BPO industry will remain on tenterhooks for some time. Presently, even the experts can expect and can’t calculate exactly. For the last 10-12 days, the global financial meltdown has sent shocks across the world—the prices of oil, value of money, and export have suffered a lot and have seen a lot of changes. Outsourcing is one of the major part of export in India and it plays a significant role in the economy also.

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Can India solve the BPO problem?
October 2, 2008

The concept of outsourcing has provided the best opportunity for the Asian countries to establish themselves on the world map as economic giants. The question is interesting and intriguing: the century of Asian giants is coming? Yes, we are talking about China and India. What you think made them become one of the strongest economies of the world? It was the strength of their workforce that could withstand the demands of almost the whole world.

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The Lehman Brothers’ Enigma and BPO industry
September 22, 2008

The bankruptcy of Lehman has a widespread impact and effect on Indian BPO market and the staff of these centers. Like me, you can also imagine that the employees of these centers are facing the utmost and acute problem of being jobless and in the consequential financial crunch. The running costs of living a life in major cities of any country could be high and similar is the case with India. Now that the employees have lost their job without any security of the finance or salary payments, they are on the cliffhanger of being swallowed by the financial requirements.

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The future of offshore outsourcing in the eyes of Sen. Obama
September 4, 2008

Now you are a bit worried about the attack made by Sen. Barack Obama on offshore outsourcing in his acceptance speech in the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday night? Well, there are wide-spread rumors as to what might happen in the near future—for a long time, the offshore outsourcing industry has been awaiting silently a sort of trend change that could affect many people around the world—could it be this!

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