Outsourcing Jobs

Nearly six percent of outsourced contract workers lost jobs in India's information technology sector in the January-March period compared to the previous quarter following the impact of the global slowdown and Russia-Ukraine war, a recruitment body said.

Nearly 60,000 outsourced contract workers lost jobs in the information technology sector in the year ending in March as jobs for flexi workers hired through contractors by companies shrank 7.7% from a year earlier, a recruitment body said.

Facebook content moderators in Kenya are suing the social media site's parent company Meta and two outsourcing companies for unlawful redundancy, a rights group said on Monday. The 43 applicants say they lost their jobs with Sama, a Kenya-based firm contracted to moderate Facebook content, for organising a union. They also say they were blacklisted...

Twitter's content moderators are being laid off by the company, weeks after Elon Musk fired half of the company's regular workforce. Like other big social media firms, Twitter has also relied heavily on contractors to track hate and enforce rules against harmful content. Twitter is said to have eliminated an untold number of contract jobs over th...

Karnataka government has reserved 33 per cent for outsourced women employees in all the departments. The state government recruits data entry operators, housekeeping staff and other group D employees, drivers through outsourcing.

Coronavirus is permanently shaking up the global outsourcing industry as lockdowns from Bengaluru to Manila prompt firms to "reshore" jobs and, with AI, to move further away from needing humans at all.

Coronavirus is permanently shaking up the global outsourcing industry as lockdowns from Bangalore to Manila prompt firms to "reshore" jobs and, with AI, to move further away from needing humans at all.

S Aditya, 21, a Bachelor of Engineering graduate, now works as a car parking Attendant in Chennai, promoting the Chennai Corporation's app for smart car parking among commuters at Pondy Bazaar for a salary of Rs 18,000 per month. This position actually requires just a Class 10 qualified candidate. But there are about 50 engineers and MBA holders wh...

"Employees are recruited by Railway Recruitment Boards etc," the minister said.

The thousands of people who do the bulk of Facebook's work keeping the site free of suicides, massacres, and other graphic posts are not Facebook employees. As contractors employed by outsourcing firms, these content moderators don't get Facebook's cushy six-month maternity leave, aren't allowed to invite friends or family to the company cafeteria,...

This is the first of its kind course being introduced in India on the advice of the Central government.

The Donald Trump administration wants to make changes in the existing H-1B provisions for it to play a better role in attracting highly skilled foreign workers as opposed to the what it has now evolved into an "outsourcing" role, the White House said Thursday.

India's IT outsourcing giant Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. needs to offer a good explanation for why engineers hired at its American outposts are 13 times as likely to be fired if they're not South Asian. The company is set to go on trial Monday in California over racial discrimination claims by American workers who lost their jobs at TCS offices ...

Minister of State for Railways Rajen Gohain told Lok Sabha that there are 94,165 contract labourers in railways and are engaged by contractors themselves directly depending upon the nature and quantum of outsourced work.

A company, Mr Murthy said, will have to get the best value for money for every paisa it spends.

Nearly six percent of outsourced contract workers lost jobs in India's information technology sector in the January-March period compared to the previous quarter following the impact of the global slowdown and Russia-Ukraine war, a recruitment body said.

Nearly 60,000 outsourced contract workers lost jobs in the information technology sector in the year ending in March as jobs for flexi workers hired through contractors by companies shrank 7.7% from a year earlier, a recruitment body said.

Facebook content moderators in Kenya are suing the social media site's parent company Meta and two outsourcing companies for unlawful redundancy, a rights group said on Monday. The 43 applicants say they lost their jobs with Sama, a Kenya-based firm contracted to moderate Facebook content, for organising a union. They also say they were blacklisted...

Twitter's content moderators are being laid off by the company, weeks after Elon Musk fired half of the company's regular workforce. Like other big social media firms, Twitter has also relied heavily on contractors to track hate and enforce rules against harmful content. Twitter is said to have eliminated an untold number of contract jobs over th...

Karnataka government has reserved 33 per cent for outsourced women employees in all the departments. The state government recruits data entry operators, housekeeping staff and other group D employees, drivers through outsourcing.

Coronavirus is permanently shaking up the global outsourcing industry as lockdowns from Bengaluru to Manila prompt firms to "reshore" jobs and, with AI, to move further away from needing humans at all.

Coronavirus is permanently shaking up the global outsourcing industry as lockdowns from Bangalore to Manila prompt firms to "reshore" jobs and, with AI, to move further away from needing humans at all.

S Aditya, 21, a Bachelor of Engineering graduate, now works as a car parking Attendant in Chennai, promoting the Chennai Corporation's app for smart car parking among commuters at Pondy Bazaar for a salary of Rs 18,000 per month. This position actually requires just a Class 10 qualified candidate. But there are about 50 engineers and MBA holders wh...

"Employees are recruited by Railway Recruitment Boards etc," the minister said.

The thousands of people who do the bulk of Facebook's work keeping the site free of suicides, massacres, and other graphic posts are not Facebook employees. As contractors employed by outsourcing firms, these content moderators don't get Facebook's cushy six-month maternity leave, aren't allowed to invite friends or family to the company cafeteria,...

This is the first of its kind course being introduced in India on the advice of the Central government.

The Donald Trump administration wants to make changes in the existing H-1B provisions for it to play a better role in attracting highly skilled foreign workers as opposed to the what it has now evolved into an "outsourcing" role, the White House said Thursday.

India's IT outsourcing giant Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. needs to offer a good explanation for why engineers hired at its American outposts are 13 times as likely to be fired if they're not South Asian. The company is set to go on trial Monday in California over racial discrimination claims by American workers who lost their jobs at TCS offices ...

Minister of State for Railways Rajen Gohain told Lok Sabha that there are 94,165 contract labourers in railways and are engaged by contractors themselves directly depending upon the nature and quantum of outsourced work.

A company, Mr Murthy said, will have to get the best value for money for every paisa it spends.