The head of strategy at IBM
3 June, 2007 | | Category: Health
“Yes, American workers are dislocated — perhaps permanently in the manufacturing sector and significantly among professional and white-collar employees whose jobs won’t return unless the country invests substantially in their retraining and education.”
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Separating Outsourcing Fact from Hysteria
TCS: Tech Central Station reports the debate over outsourcing and its impact on the US economy reached a high level of what can only be described as irrationality, and even hysteria.
Outsourcing is not a new phenomenon, of course. Strictly speaking, the term refers to the subcontracting of any business function to an outside supplier, but in the current debate outsourcing to other companies within the home country is rarely mentioned. It is the offshore component that is controversial.
Estimates of the number of jobs involved vary wildly. The head of strategy at IBM, Bruce Harreld, has estimated that the world’s companies now spend $19 trillion per year on sales and other administrative costs, and of this only $1.4 trillion is outsourced. The McKinsey Global Institute suggests that offshore outsourcing may increase by 30-40 per cent a year for the next five years, while Forrester Research predicts that 3.3 million white-collar jobs may be relocated overseas by 2015. The potential cost savings involved are certainly very large. McKinsey has suggested the multinational companies can lower their costs by 50-70 per cent through the reorganization of their production and administrative activities. In the white-collar area, IT services are likely to be the most affected. Already some 16 per cent of such work is done remotely, and perhaps half of such jobs may move overseas in the near future.Arnie Herz, who has been called “one of New York’s most highly skilled and gifted mediators” by United States District Judge Carl Horn III, will be putting his own unique stamp on Blawg Review at Legal Sanity, the blog Arnie created to help lawyers achieve work-life balance and find reinvigorated meaning in their work.
For those of you who blog, if you’d like to help Arnie out and submit a blog post for his consideration as he prepares to deliver Blawg Review #108, here are the official Blawg Review submission guidelines.
In the meantime, Blawg Review #107 is hosted this week by the implacable Professor Kingfield. Sit up straight and make sure you’ve done your homework.
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Monday, April 30, 2007
May 1 is Law Day: how will you celebrate it?
May 1 is Law Day–Celebrate!Two weeks ago I published a post explaining why I would not be observing One Day Blog Silence today, April 30, when many bloggers will be observing a collective day of silence in honor of the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings along with others who have fallen to violence throughout the world.
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Recruiting Overseas
Spokane Journal of Business reports American Industries International Inc., have been in the business of recruiting nurses, pharmacists, and high-tech engineers from foreign countries to work in the U.S. Though the 34-year Spokane resident says he has established business contacts in 35 countries, recruits so far have come solely from The Philippines and India.
“There is a dire shortage of nurses in the U.S.,” says Uddin. “At present, there is a shortage of 250,000 nurses in this country, and by the year 2020, the shortage is expected to jump up to 700,000 nurses. Washington state is currently short 6,000 nurses, and it is a proven fact that the higher the ratio of nurses, the lower the mortality rate.”