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  • From: "Toni Hawryluk" <tonihawr AT msn.com>
  • To: "Homestead mailing list" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Homestead] more jobs go bye-bye
  • Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:55:58 -0800

http://www.techsunite.org/offshore/<http://www.techsunite.org/offshore/>

Tracker Update: Over 22,000 More U.S. Jobs Offshore

Established offshoring companies such as Honeywell, EDS, and Dell are paving
the offshore-outsourcing road into a multi-lane highway. They are
accountable for over 8,000 more U.S. jobs either laid-off or outsourced
overseas added in this update. The TechsUnite Offshore Tracker update adds a
total of 22,330 more jobs offshored and 9,460 U.S. employee lay-offs caused
by offshore outsourcing.

The new offshoring companies include, Siemens AG, a wireless
telecommunications company, with plans to "re-locate" 15,000 programming jobs
to India, China and Eastern Europe. United Airlines will offshore 850
customer service call-center jobs to India, while Epixtar, a teleservice
company, sends 2,000 jobs to the Philippines.

ITC Group Inc., a call center operator, would not disclose the exact number
of positions moving offshore. However the company confirms plans to open a
facility in the Philippines. John Brennan, chairman and chief executive
officer said in a statement, "The opening of this call center is part of our
overall strategic plan to shift global production capacity to more
cost-effective...offshore facilities." The company closed 10 call centers
from the U.S. and Canada last year.

Offshore destinations expect U.S. business to move even faster down the
offshore-highway since the election of U.S. President Bush. As Vivik Paul,
the vice chairman of Wipro, an IT outsourcing company based in Bangalore,
told the New York Times, "The elections are over and so is the rhetoric; it
will be easier for American corporations to step out with their outsourcing
plans."



  • [Homestead] more jobs go bye-bye, Toni Hawryluk, 11/23/2004

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