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'Onshoring', the buzzword among U.S. companies

Indian — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:17:56 +0000

India and other Asian countries have been reaping immense benefits since the past decade due to large US and European companies outsourcing or rather off-shoring back-office operations to these nations, which reportedly had a large and growing pool...

'The Virtual Family Dinner': Get Connected with your Elders!

Anupam — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 05:11:29 +0000

Many of you who are working or living away from your family members often get home sick as you want to have dinner when all your family members are around. This does not make you home sick but can also become a host of physical and mental...

Accenture and Genpact Emerge As Top BPO Employers in India

Gautam — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:45:59 +0000

These are the major companies which have generated employment for a number of Indians in the outsourcing industry. You must be wondering whom I am talking about- these are Accenture and Genpact which as per a study have emrged out as one of the top...

Game on for Web 2.0, but what about security?

Jayanta Bhattacharya — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 06:45:03 +0000

The game has become fast and furious in the Web 2.0 sphere. Almost every new thing happening in Web 2.0 is news, be it a startup offering social networking, religious networking, video upload and sharing or big business takeovers and deals like...

Accenture Looking To Increase Its Outsourcing Business

Gautam — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:26:43 +0000

Accenture Canada is all set to build on its experience in outsourcing for handling the IT infrastructure chores managed by bigger firms such as IBM. Coming Friday the company would be hosting a private event along with Microsoft in Toronto in order...

Muslim women to be trained for better jobs soon

Charu — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:50:50 +0000

Very soon Muslim women will receive free job training as the part of £10 million pilot scheme targeted to attract more muslim women into the job sector. This campaign will include attempts to ensure that a greater number of firms create jobs...

Accenture Enters Insurance Outsourcing Fray

Gautam — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:38:01 +0000

In order to develop new outsourcing services for the life insurance industry, Accenture would be buying insurance software firm NaviSys. The company plans to challenge Computer Sciences which is the market leader. The deal would be completed in the...

Aceenture Cuts Two Hundred Jobs in Outsourcing

Gautam — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:09:22 +0000

Is this indicating a slowdown in outsourcing business? Accenture would be cutting two hundred jobs in its Chicago office. This is expected to be done over the next eight months. These employees are currently working in the human resources...

TELSTRA defends using GPS devices, denies 'playing Big Brother'

Dharmendra — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 03:41:46 +0000

TELSTRA defended GPS devices being used by it, saying it was not “playing Big Brother” or looking to “spy” on staff, while it intendes to assist the workers so that they can do their job, and the company can locate the whereabouts of their staff. GPS...

andpound;500 million Unilever Outsourcing contract goes to Accenture

Krish — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 02:39:27 +0000

Accenture Limited, the management consulting and high end outsourcing service provider has bagged an estimated £500 million outsourcing deal from Unilever. In case everything remains in place Unilever will officially announce the deal by mid...