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Based on last year’s experience, in which the cap for H-1B visas was exceeded on the first day it began accepting applications for them, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is probably dreading tomorrow’s beginning of this year’s lottery.
There will be plenty of unhappy companies that don’t get the coveted visas. Making a bad problem even […]

We journalists tend to be a sucker for stories that we can sum up in cutesy headlines. So I guess it’s unrealistic to expect much fact-checking for a news release from outplacement specialist Challenger, Gray & Christmas that links mass productivity losses during the month of March to workers using technology to check in on […]

AT&T announced in late 2006 its intent to return some offshore technical support positions to the U.S., a move that, at the time, I blogged should win it some positive public relations and possibly even added customer loyalty.
In a later blog about some British companies that were promoting the fact that all of their contact […]

I blogged back in June about concerns surrounding the growing practice of federal government agencies employing contract workers. Several studies seemed to indicate that, rather than boosting efficiency and saving the government money, the practice suffered from a lack of oversight and inflated costs.
A recent report from the Government Accountability Office offers more fodder for […]

I blogged just last week about Indian outsourcers’ pursuit of a global sourcing model, with expansions into far-flung geographies including North America and Europe.
Europe is likely to be an especially hot prospect for growth, considering that its appetite for outsourcing appears to be growing as demand in the U.S. remains sluggish. Indian companies have already […]