In tearing into Bobby Jindal's response to Obama's speech last week, Chris Matthews said, "They had to outsource the response." Interesting choice of words.
It's being called the ultimate outsourcing: Americans looking for jobs overseas. This role reversal may seem scary, but it reflects the future of global commerce.
Although computers and technology has improved our standard of living immensely, IT technicians are still not regarded with the prestige and respect they have struggled to earn over the years.
Notorious security company Blackwater is back in the news, just in time to remind us (again) how over-reliance on contractors for sensitive security missions is hurting American effectiveness abroad.
Why has the gay community -- and the organizations that supposedly represent us -- embraced "outsourced" activism as our central political strategy in recent years?
I hate to say this, because President-Elect Obama is setting the example for us to be nice and dignified and stop all the political/cultural warfare t...
Either American living standards must continue eroding at a shocking pace, or the costs of these living standards must come down accordingly in order to give American workers a chance to compete for jobs.
Our ability to weather many of the country's gravest challenges, like World War II, depended upon government and industry working together to advance the public interest.
If women aren't looked after in this election, in this economic environment, the losses will be substantial and lasting.
I think Senator McCain will probably win in November because what North Americans value most is security, stability and experience, and that is McCain.
What the people who run American corporations call "free" trade is hurting our economy more than it is helping.
These days, wives are doing things we enjoy more than running errands with our days --and so an industry of concierge services, household managers and the like has sprung up to try to make the little things littler.
I have an idea for how to get companies to change their approach to customer service. It requires your help. I would like to ask readers of the Huffington Post to share your experiences.
The personal is political, the second wave feminists liked to say and nothing showcases the hard choices modern mothers face like the issue of what we feed our families.
Many women who truly want to focus on nurturing their families, and making the most of their careers realize that they're better off going it alone.
When a business transfers important control to someone else's hands on the other side of the planet, bad things happen, they say -- like compliance and fraud issues.
The home-garden micro-trend runs counter to the tidal wave of food outsourcing that's swept through grocery stores over the past 20 years.
Laundry has long been the bane of many a mother's existence. If you've got small kids who roll in the dirt, wipe their noses on their sleeves and spill milk on their pants, loads of it can pile up.
All three remaining candidates litter their speeches with allusions to "jobs," but never provide any insight to the sacrifices that Americans will have to make in order to create and retain these new jobs.
The average person has seen how he or she can demand more from brands, and become more a part of that conversation, and that is now influencing their perspective on their work situations.
American workers don't want deals like NAFTA, CAFTA and PNTR. They've seen through the false promises that "free trade" will create more exports, better jobs and better wages.
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All I can say is, email the President. After reading this article, that was the first thing I did...
Kudos to IBM - What a great pro-American and patriotic corporation - they make me proud...
IBM's gross profit in 2008 was 45.66 Billion dollars, and apparently that is not enough.
They still feel the need to crush the American based IT workers even more in 2009 and continue to send all them American jobs to the 3rd world armies they continue to build right under our noses with absolute impunity. It is despicable...
Yoohoo - President Obama and our new "change" government - where are you?
It sounds as if the Left hand does not know what the Right hand has been doing. Now that this has been illuminated, we will have to wait and see if the State / local / federal government will step in.
Where are the "stimulus funds" are coming from? If they are from the ARRA funds, then it is up to the STATE to assure that the funds are spent in their STATE, to save or add jobs. If IBM received money from NY in the past, what does the Gov of NY have to say?
More information is needed for a "populous uprising" as seen against AIG / AUI (the witness protection program name).
Personally, I blame it all on the spreadsheet (Lotus 1-2-3 and Microsoft Excel).
When you encapsulate your business as a set of "cells" on a spreadsheet, it's inevitable that a cell will indicate that a $20/hr Indian software engineer will save a lot of money over the American $75/hr software engineer.
What the "cell" doesn't say to the greedy IBM executives is that they are destroying the American middle class and down the line the American Market which has been so integral to their success. These IBM executives send their kids to American schools, enjoy our infrastructure and freedom, all while they shoot the country in the back.
President Obama said often in the 2008 campaign that he would take tax breaks away from American corporations that ship jobs overseas. Might be a good time to make an example of IBM.
Great post.
To be fair its Palmisano's JOB to be trying to get his hands in every cookie jar. thats what he is paid to do, look out for his shareholders.
Its Govt's job to look out for what it thinks will benefit its citizens.
two different entities. why blame IBM?
So what do you do for a living? Can they send your job offshore? Could you be replaced by someone willing to work for less?
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