News (49)

  • ANZ spends $10m to offset offshoring

    The Australia and New Zealand Banking group has committed money to re-skill its employees affected by offshoring jobs to the technology and operations centre in Bangalore, India.

  • Manila holds calls as Telstra offshores

    Telstra has revealed that it will be offshoring a substantial portion of its bill support contact centre operation to the Philippines.

  • Government to help get more bodies in IT

    Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Julia Gillard, introduced the Skills Australia Bill 2008 to Parliament yesterday, with some observers already saying it will bolster the IT industry in fighting the skills crisis.

  • AFP stalls in India as crime embraces offshoring

    Despite missing its target to set up a base in India to target ID theft and information crime, the AFP says it's still planning to open its offshore centre.

  • Offshoring can increase costs: Vic police CIO

    The offshoring trend is largely a way of buying time and being seen to make changes, Valda Berzins, CIO of Victoria Police, told a seminar organised by VTR Consulting.

Features and Case Studies (28)

  • Gloomy future strike some Indian workers

    It's a dead end job, according to call centre and offshoring workers in India. So they're quitting in droves.

  • The jobless recovery and offshore outsourcing

    Charges that misguidedness, short-sightedness or even evil business leaders is behind the latest outsourcing trend is not true. And the solution to stop the practice is even less true.

  • Gartner targets offshoring 'myths'

    IT research and analysis provider Gartner Incorporated questioned the negative coverage about offshoring in a report presented during its sourcing and IT services summit.

  • Analyst plays down offshore outsourcing impact as tension rises

    A leading Asia-Pacific tech analyst claims the outsourcing of information technology and business processes offshore is "not something to get overly excited about," despite increasing international controversy over the migration of jobs to lower-cost countries.

  • Why Daryl Williams is wrong

    Industry observer Tony Healy takes IT minister Daryl Williams to task for making "unfounded claims" on Australia's position as an outsourcing leader.

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