TWO RIVERS, WISCONSIN – Christopher Hytry Derrington, CEO of rural US outsourcing company Rural America OnShore Outsourcing, Inc. is promoting a jobs creation plan to provide funding to entrepreneurs so that millions of online workers will have jobs in rural America. The impetus for this plan, says Hytry Derrington, is The American Recovery and Reinvestment [...]
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Mon, December 19 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Between 2000 and 2010, federal spending on service contracts grew in constant terms from $164 billion to $343 billion. Given today’s difficult budgetary environment, the spending on service contracts and decisions on insourcing and outsourcing have been at the forefront of policy discussions. Recently, Ashton Carter, then-undersecretary of Defense for acquisition, technology and logistics and [...]
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Mon, October 3 2011 » Business Services, Business Transformation Trends, Outsourcing Business Trends, Uncategorized » No Comments
Budget negotiators in Olympia are debating whether to privatize a host of little-seen government functions that collect state agencies’ mail, pay their rent, print their documents and maintain their cars. The Senate budget calls for contracting out more back-office work, a small piece of the savings proposed by the plan but another sign of this [...]
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Fri, May 13 2011 » Employment Trends, Management Trends, Uncategorized » No Comments
More large companies are turning to collocation providers to relieve capacity constraints in their data centers, as a way to avoid the high cost of building their own new brick-and-mortar facilities, two studies suggest. The Uptime Institute, in its first annual data center survey, reported Tuesday that more than a third of the large companies [...]
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Thu, May 12 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
The Holmdel Board of Education’s decision to outsource transportation staff and services continues to raise concerns among school bus drivers, parents and teachers. “It’s hard for me to retire,” Ann Benson, a Holmdel bus driver for special-needs children since 1977, said at the board’s April 13 meeting. “But I knew the babies were in good [...]
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Fri, April 22 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
NEW DELHI: With fast changing industry dynamics, the country’s BPO sector is expected to see a consolidation wave in the coming months, says global research group Gartner. “A consolidation wave in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector is likely (in the coming months). Since it is challenging to cope with changing dynamics, some existing entities may [...]
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Thu, December 30 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
North Carolina is exploring whether it can save money by outsourcing psychological evaluations and care of accused criminals who may suffer mental illness. The News & Observer of Raleigh reports Wednesday that the state Department of Health and Human Services is asking private firms what they would charge to house about 90 patients. That number [...]
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Wed, December 8 2010 » Outsourcing Business Trends, Uncategorized » No Comments
Some Fil-Ams are worried about the campaign rhetoric against business outsourcing the days leading up to next week’s midterm elections that could hurt countries like the Philippines. “This should be a source of concern for Filipinos,” admitted lawyer Wari Azarcon, one of the founding members of the Filipino American Republicans of Virginia (FARV).
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Fri, October 29 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments