Outsourcing the Picket Line
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The picketers marching in a circle in front of a downtown Washington office building chanting about low wages do not seem fully focused on their message.
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Company's employees have been posting their thoughts on tech topics.
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Visiting Indian delegation gets earful from U.S. workers dislocated by outsourcing.
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Company outsources e-mail for small to medium businesses.
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In open-source software and new media, there's big money in unpaid labor
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Opinion: Bruce A. Stewart thinks too many companies don't manage their outsourcers properly.
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Global competition can be a drag. It all but guarantees a steady stream of restructuring, outsourcing, and the nagging insecurity that comes from knowing someone out there may be trying to take your job.
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The best of Computerworld's coverage of IT outsourcing.
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A new kid on the block promises to give offshore outsourcing a run for its money--by routing technology work to rural America. [Outsourcing Blog]
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This contract manufacturer is flexing its muscles.
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Union demands talks over job cut plans Union representatives for Royal Dutch Shell's IT workers demanded talks with the firm's top management yesterday over the outsourcing of up to 3,000 jobs at the oil giant.â¦
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One of the proverbial back stories of IT operations has always been the battle between the "suits" and the "techies." From the techie point of view, the hapless but disturbingly powerful suits are the business guys who put more thought into picking out hundred-dollar silk ties at Nordstrom than they put into million-dollar IT decisions. Worse, the suits gravitate towards outsourcing and service firms that implement big-dollar solutions. Many techies start on the other end of the spectrum with free open source solutions that reflect a substantial DIY ethic. Will the twain ever meet?
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Outsourcing is a word we hear more and more these days, but according to EMC Chairman and CEO Joe Tucci, it&#39;s one that&#39;s used too much.&quot;I think outsourcing is an over-used word. I think what you are going to see more of is companies willing to outsource a business process. So for instance, in EMC we outsource all our payroll but we outsource the entire process, not just the IT process. So I think you are going to see a lot more of that. I think you are not going to see wholesale take everything. I think that market is slowing down,&quot; he said.Tucci was speaking during a news conference on the sidelines of his company&#39;s EMC Forum event.He said outsourcing of specific functions, such as PC backup which EMC offers through its Berkeley Data Systems unit, is where he sees success in outsourcing.&quot;I see business process outsourcing speeding up, I see a slowdown in wholesale &#39;take my whole datacenter, take my applications and you do it for me.&#39; I think that market is not going to be a robust market,&quot; he said.Last week the data-storage company reported a&#160;third quarter net income&#160;of $493 million, up more than $200 million over the same period last year. Revenue jumped to $3.3 billion from $2.8 billion. The company was helped during the quarter by the&#160;sale of a partial stake&#160;in virtualization software maker VMware to Cisco Systems.&#160;EMC acquired VMware&#160;in 2003.Tucci said EMC might look at further acquisitions but is now focused on companies that will help grow its existing businesses.&quot;My philosophy is that I want to stay focused on what I call these eight spheres of technology, so acquisitions that we do would basically make some of these spheres stronger rather than put another sphere on the board,&quot; he said. The eight areas he referred to are: intelligent information management, enterprise content management, virtualization, resource management, storage, availability, security, and archiving.&quot;That being said, eventually we will add a new sphere but that&#39;s not my immediate attention,&quot; Tucci said.During the news conference Tucci also confirmed that Mark Lewis has become president of the company&#39;s Documentum unit. Lewis was previously chief development officer for EMC.
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BEIJING, June 21 -- The outrage started with the discovery that more than 500 migrant laborers had been forced to work in conditions bordering on slavery in out-of-the-way brick kilns. Local Communist Party authorities, state-run media said, had looked the other way.
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Working Western contracts in India isn't enough. Now they're outsourcing too.
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Organized labor is starting to track companies that ship U.S. jobs overseas and will make the information available to the public in a database.
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The wave of Internet-fueled criticism over atrocious labor practices could mark a milestone how grassroots protests affect the country's leaders