Tag: outsourcing
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Saturday Links
1. I don't know much about Common Good RVA, but I like their vision. Christianity Today published a piece featuring them, Why the Rest of Your Week Matters to God "In general, the church has done a fine job equipping Christians for the "private" areas of their lives: prayer, morality, family life, and so on.…
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A Simple Graph Showing the American Manufacturing Worker Is Suddenly an Incredible Bargain
Atlantic: Showing the American Manufacturing Worker Is Suddenly an Incredible Bargain This month's Atlantic magazine predicts that we are on the verge of a U.S.-based manufacturing renaissance, as companies see the advantages to making more goods at home, such as more control over the final product, lower energy costs from moving goods across an ocean,…
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The Insourcing Boom
Atlantic: The Insourcing Boom After years of offshore production, General Electric is moving much of its far-flung appliance-manufacturing operations back home. It is not alone. An exploration of the startling, sustainable, just-getting-started return of industry to the United States. … What has happened? Just five years ago, not to mention 10 or 20 years ago, the…
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Finally, Globalization May Help American Workers
U.S. News: Finally, Globalization May Help American Workers It's a stunning thought: The United States, long dependent on foreign oil, may actually achieve energy independence over the next two decades. And by 2030 it could become a net exporter of oil. … … That intriguing possibility has generated most of the headlines, but the IEA…
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Higher costs forcing firms to relocate (from China)
China Daily: Higher costs forcing firms to relocate Jobs going to other countries in China's 'great industry transfer' Rising wages and shrinking export demand are forcing manufacturers to relocate to neighboring Southeast Asian nations and many that remain are seriously considering moving, a foreign trade official from the Ministry of Commerce said. The official, who…
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Why Indian IT companies are outsourcing – to US
Christian Science Monitor: Why Indian IT companies are outsourcing – to US Two decades after they began running US operations from Bangalore and other cities, Indian IT companies are hiring Americans to do work that was once outsourced. What gives? On a top floor of an office building in Atlanta's posh and wooded Buckhead district,…
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World’s next outsourcing hub: Kenya?
Christian Science Monitor: World's next outsourcing hub: Kenya? The government is pumping millions of dollars into improving the country's outdated telecom system in an effort to capitalize on Kenya's large pool of English-speaking graduates. Eventually it wants Kenya to be as well-known for its call centers as its lions, tea, and coffee. …….. Last week,…
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External affairs (Outsourcing)
The Economist: External affairs Old assumptions are being challenged as the outsourcing industry matures. AT THE start of the decade anecdotes began to circulate about the perils of sending white-collar work abroad. One apocryphal tale centred on Indian workers who had been given the job of keying the results of the latest British census into…