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		<title>Factories Rethinking Outsourcing Strategies To Bring Manufacturing Back Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 16:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Cherian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. One of these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IT Outsourcing On the Rise, While Offshoring Plummets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Cherian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a major UK business survey, IT outsourcing appears to be a growing trend to UK-based suppliers. PeoplePerHour, Europe’s largest online business marketplace, has revealed the results of its 50,000 plus business users. The surveyed underscored that 60 percent of UK’s businesses are outsourcing more than a couple of years ago. One of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IT Outsourcing Buffers Outflow of Funds During Recession</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Cherian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. In the last decade or so, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad employers, toxic bosses and RPO vendors take note: The downturn is easing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Futuristic State of Indian BPO Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivek Kumar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can India solve the BPO problem?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivek Kumar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lehman Brothers&#8217; Enigma and BPO industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivek Kumar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The future of offshore outsourcing in the eyes of Sen. Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivek Kumar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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