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JEFFERSON CITY — Carson-Newman College announced today it is outsourcing its 44-employee housekeeping staff and confirmed the school laid off 11 staff and faculty earlier this month.
“The golden age of American higher education has passed, where we can just live fat and not be responsible as lean managers and practicing sound business,” President Randall O’Brien said this morning during an interview.
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The vice president is hardly known for being apropos, and has several highly-scrutinised gaffes under his belt.
At a jobs speech at a manufacturing plant in New Hampshire today, Joe Biden donned a seemingly inappropriate accent while speaking about outsourcing.
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This summer, Natarajan Chandrasekaran, the CEO of India-based Tata Consultancy Services (part of the massive Tata group that sells everything from insurance to cars), took a trip to Toronto to check up on his company’s Canadian operations.
TCS is in the outsourcing business, taking care of IT services for a variety of customers, both big and small. Mostly, TCS does traditional IT work such as tech troubleshooting and software management, but these days customers are even looking to outsource their social networking – contracting TCS to set up their internal communications tools, as well as their social presence on the Web.
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Indian outsourcer HCL Technologies said it plans to hire 10,000 IT pros in the U.S. and Europe in the next five years as part of an effort to diversify its operations beyond its stronghold on the Asian subcontinent.
A spokesperson said it’s too soon to estimate how those numbers will be split between the two geographies.
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N Chandrasekaran, MD & CEO, Tata Consultancy Services says there will be more actions and speeches, both towards creating jobs and outsourcing but India will continued to play a big part in outsourcing because of the sheer size and skills required by the outsourcing industry.
Prashant: Apart from the picture perfect scenery, what’s the take away…I mean this time around, what’s the mood like?
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PHILIPPINE Information and communications technology (ICT) players said on Wednesday that the bill pending in the United States Congress barring American companies from outsourcing jobs overseas will fail to pass for lack of support.
In a statement, Lizabel Holganza, vice president of the National ICT Confederation of the Philippines (NICP), said that the bill, which is being deliberated in Capitol Hill, is actually a rehash of a 2004 bill that Sen. Liz Figueroa of California state had tried to rally support for.
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As more and more Australian banks and accounting firms announce plans for job cuts, the Finance Sector Union has warned that the four largest banks may be poised to send as many as 1,000 finance sector jobs overseas to India and elsewhere in an effort to cut labour costs, according to a report by the Australian Financial Review.
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Joseph D. Foresi is the Director of IT outsourcing, business process outsourcing and consulting at Janney Montgomery Scott LLC. He joined Janney in August 2004 and is a global services Analyst with a focus on outsourcing and consulting services. In this role, he focuses on providing comprehensive, in-depth, value-added information and makes frequent trips overseas where his covered companies operate. Before joining Janney, Mr. Foresi worked in private client portfolio management at Brown Brothers Harriman in Boston. He holds an MBA from Northeastern University and a B.A. in economics from the University of Massachusetts.
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Global player IMS Health has acquired Baring Private Equity-backed PharmARC Analytics Solutions Ltd, a Bangalore-based knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) firm focused on pharma and healthcare verticals, for an undisclosed sum.
This acquisition strengthens IMS Health’s business process outsourcing capabilities and complements its suite of proprietary technology and software applications, the company said on the acquisition.
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Sykes Enterprises, Incorporated (“SYKES” or the “Company”) SYKE +0.68% , a global leader in providing outsourced customer contact management solutions and services in the business process outsourcing (BPO) arena, has announced its expansion of SYKES Home, a virtual call center model in which customer service professionals work out of their homes.
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