India to hire Americans

[Joanne98]

NEW DELHI -- A wave of anti-offshoring sentiment in the U.S. Congress is prompting India's biggest tech companies to prepare for something unexpected: hiring Americans.

Outsourcing giants Infosys Technologies Ltd. and Wipro Ltd. -- long derided by some U.S. politicians for taking U.S. jobs away -- are laying the groundwork to boost the number of jobs they create stateside, mostly to make sure they can still do business if the U.S. passes legislation that restricts their ability to send Indians to the U.S. to work.

As U.S. unemployment rises, such legislation could come soon, observers say. Already, a provision in ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123534870346144661.html?mod=rss_asia_whats_news

[Taverner]

1. The upside of Globalism

Of course, it pits our nations into a social darwinist struggle in the long run...which is not good

[DainBramaged]

2. Really? While our corporations race to the bottom to pay the lowest possible wages?

Reagan economic apologists, they're everywhere............

[stillcool]

3. Our corporations are their coprorations too!

[Taverner]

6. Oh its only a temporary upside

Soon we'll be all dispensable cheap labor

[Jeep789]

4. IBM offering jobs in India to those layed off here

and tries to pass it off as doing the workers a favor.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/outsourcing/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=213000389

IBM Offers To Move Laid Off Workers To India


Big Blue wants to help redundant U.S. employees relocate to developing markets, according to an internal document.

By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
February 2, 2009 12:36 PM


The climate is warm, there's no shortage of exotic food, and the cost of living is rock bottom. That's IBM (NYSE: IBM)'s pitch to the laid-off American workers it's offering to place in India. The catch: Wages in the country are pennies-on-the-dollar compared to U.S. salaries.

Under a program called Project Match, IBM will help workers laid off from domestic sites obtain travel and visa assistance for countries in which Big Blue has openings. Mostly that's developing markets like India, China, and Brazil.

"IBM has established Project Match to help you locate potential job opportunities in growth markets where your skills are in demand," IBM says in an internal notice on the initiative. "Should you accept a position in one of these countries, IBM offers financial assistance to offset moving costs, provides immigration support, such as visa assistance, and other support to help ease the transition of an international move."

The document states that the program is limited to "satisfactory performers who have been notified of separation from IBM U.S. or Canada and are willing to work on local terms and conditions." The latter indicates that workers will be paid according to prevailing norms in the countries to which they relocate. In many cases, that could be substantially less than what they earned in North America.

[northernlights]

8. and after they lay you off in China

or India, or Brazil, will they pay your way back to the states? Or do you have to find work on a ship to get back?

[Ernesto]

5. Nothing new......

I know of 2 uneducated (non Chinese speaking) losers that have found careers at Chinese Universities teaching English. If you are desperate enough to live in a sh*t hole, You too can have a job.
Boom times is boom times!

[bird gerhl]

7. Please don't refer to an entire country as a "sh*t hole"

It's racist

[Ernesto]

10. Soo sorry

But where do you choose to live?
Lousy conditions are lousy conditions no matter what race the people are that live there.

[bird gerhl]

12. Most human beings

have no "choice" in where they live, they are born somewhere and they stay there. Countries aren't "sh*tholes" on their own accord or from the sheer stupidity/irrationality of the countries' inhabitants, they are turned into "sh*tholes" by the international parasitism of non-"sh*tholes".

[upi402]

9. Ronnie Raygun licked it 'round the edges, but Clinton...

hit the sweet spot. Thanks for NAFTA and GATT corporatist "Dems"! :eyes:

traitors
:puke:
Republicans
:mad:

[Ernesto]

11. Agreed........ NT