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It’s hard to be pessimistic about the North American market for IT professionals, with reports like this new one from Robert Half Technology.
Thirteen percent of CIOs plan to add new IT jobs in 2006’s fourth quarter, while just 3 percent anticipate cutting positions, according to the staffing firm.
The trend seems likely to continue, seeing that […]

It may not exactly be a case of the chickens coming home to roost, but AT&T’s decision to bring back in-house technical support positions that had been outsourced — at least some of them to offshore locations — is an interesting one.
It will create some 2,000 unionized jobs in the U.S., though AT&T hasn’t made […]

As the world gets flatter, supply chains may have to get more vertical. That’s the message of an interesting Slate piece, which itself was based on a Wall Street Journal article.
With the advent of outsourcing, many companies began peeling away layers of business that weren’t considered core competencies and passing them off to outside suppliers. Probably […]

Is there a service that cannot be offshored? Logically, it would seem so, but an experiment in which DuPont is outsourcing a big chunk of legal work to an offshore firm makes us realize that companies are willing to consider this model for services that until recently seemed immune to offshoring.
DuPont, which has a big […]

Turns out the offshoring trend has legs longer — and stronger — than many experts expected.
As reported on CIO Update, an IDC analyst called offshore growth rates “quite astounding.” They are perhaps even more astounding, considering that he and other observers had expected a slowdown in the market by now.
Even though they are faced with recruitment […]