| Here's where the accelerated practice of offshoring creates a new and prodigious challenge. |
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| For tech workers, at least, the threat of offshoring is also a strong motivator. |
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| He expects this outsourcing and offshoring to increase and insists both practices will benefit the US economy in the long run. |
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| The TAA program should be expanded to cover individuals dislocated by offshoring in service industries or in public employment. |
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| Dell has been one of the most aggressive embracers of offshoring operations to the third-world. |
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| Whether it's offshoring or nearshoring, he knows what it takes to make a global collaboration work. |
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| Despite the discouraging outlook, many black-owned businesses are proving that offshoring does not spell the end of contracting as we know it. |
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| He positions the company's technology as an alternative to physical nearshoring and offshoring of tasks and jobs. |
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| In a globalized world and given the economic environment in the West, onshoring should be given as much importance as offshoring. |
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| The short term savings from offshoring or onshoring are pocket change relative to losing the value of the intellectual property. |
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| It credits the need for reskilling and the threat of offshoring for the the increase in numbers. |
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| The US debate over offshoring of high skilled jobs is of more than academic interest to New Zealand. |
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| In an ironic counterpart to the trend of offshoring programmer jobs to India, the business of writing about programming is also on the move. |
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| For many multinationals, in fact, offshoring can be a public-relations nightmare at both ends of the pipeline. |
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| We should cheer the good news, of course, but the downgrading of offshoring as a national issue is a big mistake. |
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| Companies looking to save money by offshoring would make bigger savings by looking at the processes behind their software development. |
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| Those losses are caused as much, or more, by productivity gains from automation than from so-called offshoring. |
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| Further benefits are derived from offshoring through the ability of US corporations to deliver their services back to the USA more cheaply. |
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| To date, 35 state legislatures have drafted bills addressing offshoring and 161 state laws restricting or banning offshoring have been proposed. |
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| The first great offshoring of service jobs occurred when back-office work and call centers went to Northern Ireland over a decade ago. |
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| Parcel pusher DHL is considering offshoring the last remnants of its IT department. |
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| It is time to expand this program to workers who lose service jobs to offshoring. |
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| In this context, offshoring as well as flexibility are part of economic reality. |
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| However, offshoring is now an accepted part of business operations, and it will continue to grow at a moderate pace. |
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| In UNHCR, the Deputy High Commissioner was provided with full authority to carry out offshoring. |
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| The winners are EU companies engaged in offshoring and able to gain profit out of it, although it is not straightforward. |
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| The debate about the impact of offshoring sometimes seems like Chicken Little vs. |
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| This situation is not conducive to establishing the overall impact of offshoring on staffing numbers and cost. |
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| From these numbers we can infer the theory predicting that offshoring won't create massive layoffs is confirmed by the facts. |
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| Employee bodies and unions which respond most successfully to offshoring are those which have briefed themselves in good time. |
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| But when you do it with a client who is using you to test offshoring, if the system you set up is too complex, then you end up losing money. |
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| However, their offshoring initiatives are piecemeal, ad hoc and disconnected. |
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| The costs of these packages should be reflected in the cost-benefit analysis of the offshoring. |
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| Therefore, while offshoring may have a limited macroeconomic impact, it will be sorely resented locally. |
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| All of this went hand in hand with a process offshoring and outsourcing part of their production. |
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| This is to say that offshoring leads to a widening of the wage gap between skilled and less educated workers. |
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| Some, particularly small-scale manufacturing jobs, have fallen victim to offshoring and foreign competition. |
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| Another high-impact topic, cost control, also went negative as the media started to equate the company's tightfistedness less with low prices and more with offshoring. |
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| There are many explanations for this decline, including the impact of offshoring, globalization and technology. |
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| The only thing that will stimulate is liberal and conservative opposition to what looks like a plan for offshoring. |
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| The option to captive offshoring is to outsource to a third party vendor abroad, something that is seen as being more cost effective and in some ways more painless. |
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| Still, offshoring can test the management skills of some startups. |
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| They have reacted with a mixture of dismay and anger to the spate of legislative activity aimed at banning overseas outsourcing or offshoring of government contracts. |
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| The airline has figured out how to cut costs and still avoid offshoring. |
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| In this regard, offshoring is likely to show up more in the compensation trends of our domestic workers in affected sectors than in their employment trends. |
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| If workers in offshorable jobs can easily move into related positions, then offshoring is of no concern at all. |
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| Taking that argument further, if domestic apathy is the problem, perhaps the answer is offshoring. |
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| Products will always need to be manufactured somewhere, but we cannot continue the current practice of offshoring. |
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| In addition, future trends may well induce the offshoring of high-skill tasks. |
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| Thus offshoring provides flexibility to the organizations in the use of resources. |
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| However, as in the US, work outsourced to any of the major contract suppliers of IT is likely to involve some degree of offshoring. |
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| That resulted in a lack of experts and a reduced workforce that urgently needs to be increased in order to face new topics such as offshoring. |
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| Both materials and business services offshoring to high-wage and low-wage countries are addressed. |
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| This may be an effective solution where the offshoring of a single service is being planned. |
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| Offshoring: India has a great deal going for it as an offshoring destination. |
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| Henceforth, for ease of reference, the word offshoring will represent offshore insourcing in this report. |
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| The lack of debate on the issue of offshoring outside economic circles may be due in part to the fact that Canada has benefited greatly from offshoring. |
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| In this context, outsourcing is thus measured exclusively by the external trade flows of intermediate products, which differs from the usual definition and to some extent overlaps with what is known as offshoring. |
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| Any organization that is considering offshoring should learn from the experience of other organizations and explore all possibilities, including insourcing to the existing offshore centres of other organizations. |
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| Homeshoring is a sibling of offshoring, he said, but while offshoring uses agents in call centers based overseas, homeshoring literally keeps agents at home, where technology has enabled them to work from the kitchen table. |
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| The combination of insourcing and offshoring for the delivery of projects led the Group to adapt and to optimize the insourced resources to other contracts. |
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| In particular, relatively small organizations, and organizations which are considering offshoring individual business functions, should insource to existing offshore centres instead of establishing another offshore centre. |
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| This combination of factors could well produce an offshoring snowball, driven by a combination of retirement dropouts at one end and lack of entry-level workers at the other. |
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| It was the greed of Wall street that led to a financial collapse and the same thing is happening under people's noses today with regard to offshoring. |
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| However, in order to develop the offshoring policy, many factors must be taken into consideration, such as location, cost of living, infrastructure and human resources. |
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| The process of assessing a company's overall offshoring strategy will move imperceptibly into an assessment of the steps being taken to select the outsourcing partner. |
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| It will show that offshoring in its traditional sense, in search of cheaper labour anywhere on the globe, is maturing, tailing off and to some extent being reversed. |
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| With business rhetoric tending to focus on the benefits of offshore outsourcing, it is important to remember that offshoring has a high failure rate. |
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| While cost factors would probably lead to the same outcome, the need to reduce pressure from the labour market may accelerate the offshoring decision. |
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| As offshoring gets under way, one clear objective could be to try to make contact with employee associations or unions representing workers in the offshore company. |
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| A portion of gains in productivity from offshoring should also be expected to come from plant turnover-the closedown and decline in less efficient plants that used to produce the inputs that are offshored. |
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| On top of that, offshoring is the shift of existing jobs to other locations and doesn't take into account the decision of where new jobs are to be created. |
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| This asymmetry between winners and losers makes the political economy of offshoring identical to most other discussions of free trade and import competition. |
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| It is part of an effort to boost the profits of large corporations and Wall Street by offshoring jobs, undercutting worker rights, and dismantling labor, environmental, health, food safety and financial laws. |
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| Technology is increasingly allowing international outsourcing and offshoring in the service sector and on white collar jobs previously thought immune to international relocation. |
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| An offshoring policy should be clearly defined and closely aligned with the overall corporate strategy of the organization, such as decentralization and regionalization. |
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| When it comes to pay levels, it has to be said that collectively-bargained wages are benefiting from the rise of salaries that may have augmented due to the offshoring phenomenon. |
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| Reducing time-to-market via product life cycle management solutions, helping clients compete through innovation and keeping costs down by offshoring and integration and testing of enterprise applications. |
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| The lower estimate in the forecast range is attributable chiefly to scaling down the overall economic growth assumptions and increasing the offshoring assumption. |
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| Although offshoring only accounts for a minor part of job losses due to restructuring, this is far from representing the total jobs lost in Europe due to competitive pressure from abroad. |
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| Accenture are successful in their offshoring and takeaways, it's only a matter of time until these tactics end up adopted by more COPE 378 employers. |
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| Street teams will be on site to inform the public about offshoring in Canada, circulate the petition and give out free buttons and bumper stickers. |
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| Service offshoring has a negative relationship with wage growth in the service sector, and it has little effect on wage growth in the goods-producing sector. |
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| Companies should also consider hidden costs of offshoring such as negative public perception and reduced morale and productivity from remaining staff. |
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| As types of outsourcing, offshoring and nearshoring are important means of reducing software costs and sometimes also improving quality. |
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| Respondents to the survey included firms from 13 countries around the world representing many of the most popular offshoring destinations. |
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| The Inspectors were informed that a new review of the offshoring project has been taking place, including a new proposal for four service centres. |
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| He believes that outsourcing, offshoring, whatever, is good. |
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| The results in this paper, using a first-differenced equation, suggest that growth in material offshoring reduces the demand for more skilled workers. |
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| This principle should set the framework and limits for foreign ownerships and ownership abroad as well as for offshoring of relevant operating and management functions or their integration across borders. |
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| Before offshoring, they should explore all possibilities, including insourcing to existing offshore service centres and establishing joint service centres. |
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| As companies of all sizes become more familiar with the benefits of offshoring, they are increasingly seeking out solutions that meet their particular demands and criteria. |
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