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I wrote last summer about Europe’s growing appetite for outsourcing, citing a TPI report that indicated continental Europe accounted for a third of all global outsourcing activity, up from just 12 percent in 2002.
The region’s appetite remains healthy, based on a new report from Everest Research that finds 36 percent of outsourcing deals during 2008’s […]

With no end in sight to the H-1B visa shortage, some companies are considering alternative visas for foreign workers such as the L-1, and wecloming a rule change that extends the amount of time foreign nationals with student visas can work in the U.S.
In the absence of more sweeping legislation, they are also hoping for […]

Just about a year ago, reports of Citigroup’s intent to sell its captive BPO operation in India started appearing everywhere, creating buzz of a coming flurry of such sales. Neither that deal nor the copycat sales materialized.
At the time, though, consulting company TPI noted three trends it said could lead to more companies selling their […]

Last week I wrote about a study that indicates that U.S. job losses due to offshoring are offset by growing sales of U.S.-produced services in other countries. This doesn’t mean there won’t be “losers,” say the researchers, economists Runjuan Liu of the University of Alberta and Daniel Trefler of the University of Toronto, who note […]

Earlier this week, I wrote a blog post about how companies’ insatiable appetite for new infrastructure is feeding a high demand for data center specialists. Of course, there’s generally a strong correlation between interest in new technologies and companies scrambling to find staff versed in them, as IT Business Edge’s Loraine Lawson points out in […]