In a new study, nearly half the business and technology leaders surveyed think the outcome of next week's presidential election will either accelerate the offshore outsourcing trend--or put the brakes on it.
NAB has been briefing its staff on moving its core business systems to a next generation platform, a move which could presage offshoring some jobs.
NAB yesterday told its employees which of its IT jobs will be offshored, after the bank took the decision to outsource some of its tech staff last year.
Barclays is to cut 1,800 IT posts in the UK as part of plans to create centrally managed technology "centres of excellence" in key offshore locations around the globe.
Telstra has revealed that it will be offshoring a substantial portion of its bill support contact centre operation to the Philippines.
Offshoring seems like such an irresistible force, but in the not-too-distant future, much of the work that is pushing offshore will be eliminated altogether by continual improvements in software technology.
It's a dead end job, according to call centre and offshoring workers in India. So they're quitting in droves.
The office of the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts has backed Telstra's decision to use offshore software developers.
Business process outsourcing has much in common with its smaller sibling IT outsourcing, but there are still some lessons to be learned.
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