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IQPC’s 8th HR Shared Services and Outsourcing Summit Features Speakers from Kellogg’s, Coca-Cola, EMC, Amtrak, Whirlpool and More

ORLANDO, Oct 05, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The 8th HR Shared Services and Outsourcing Summit will bring together key HR transformation leaders on October 25-27 at the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando, FL. Aimed to connect HR professionals with the latest in shared services strategies, technologies and case studies, the event has become the industry [...]

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Tue, October 5 2010 » Employment Trends, Management Trends, Uncategorized » No Comments

Up next, jail outsourcing?

Now even jails may be outsourced. Inspired by the South African model, the home ministry is planning to nudge states to build and run jails on public private partnership (PPP) to avoid massive investments needed to build new ones. India has nearly 1,300 jails that have a capacity of 2.7 lakh prisoners. But they end [...]

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Wed, September 15 2010 » Outsourcing Business Trends, Uncategorized » No Comments

Uniform Compulsion For The Cab Drivers Of Bpo & IT Sector

Taking the first concrete step towards curtailing the rising incidents of crime against business process outsourcing (BPO) and IT staffers, the Regional Transport Office has made uniform compulsory for cab drivers who are offering services to the employees of IT-BPO companies in the city. RTO stated that Government of Maharashtra has defined the pattern for [...]

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Tue, September 7 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Surrogate mothers: Outsourcing pregnancy in India

THE MINISTRY of Women and Child Development is examining the issue of ‘surrogate motherhood’ in India for bringing up a comprehensive legislation. But surrogate motherhood – as an arrangement, in which a woman carries and bears a child for another person or persons, but takes no ownership of the child born – has also raised [...]

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Wed, August 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Arkansas Senate race: Battle over outsourcing

Outsourcing to India has become a flashpoint in the Democratic Party’s primary for a US Senate seat in Bill Clinton’s home state of Arkansas. There have a series of attacks on Arkansas Lt Governor Bill Halter who has posed a serious challenge to sitting Senator, Democrat Blanche Lincoln. The attacks have focused on how Halter [...]

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Mon, May 17 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Air Force Readies $800 Million Outsourcing Deal

The Air Force is ramping up a search for a new contractor for its Global Combat Support System (GCSS-AF) contract, an IT infrastructure and services outsourcing deal estimated to be worth almost $800 million. Late Friday, the Air Force issued a request for proposals for the deal, which is expected to be awarded in April [...]

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Thu, May 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

The Underbelly of Outsourcing: Spammers Take Advantage of Developing Countries

Outsourcing continues to turn up in (un?)expected places. Just a few days ago, the New York Times reported in this story that spammers are outsourcing. Yep, the folks that do their best to cram spam into the inboxes and social network accounts and Web sites of everyone are outsourcing some of their more mundane tasks [...]

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Tue, April 27 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

European travel crisis creates call traffic for BPOs

Business process outsourcing companies serving the aviation industry have seen a spike in call volumes – in some cases three times the normal levels – from distressed airline passengers, as the volcanic ash cloud grounded and disrupted tens of thousands of flights, in and out of Europe. Offshore BPOs such as Aegis and InterGlobe Technologies [...]

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Thu, April 22 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

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