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MS plans largest company lay-off
When Eric Poore began working as a customer service representative for Microsoft's technical call-routing center in 1997, he was told his advancement opportunities were endless...

...Four years after Poore lost his first position to outsourcing, he is about to lose his six-year career because Microsoft is in the process of a massive relocation of Customer Central call center jobs to India and Canada.

Employees estimate that Microsoft is planning to eliminate at least 800 jobs in the next fiscal year at the company's Las Colinas facility outside of Dallas, Texas and shift the work offshore...more [WashTech]

First it was the H1B Visa, now it's just easier to simply send the job to them. Off shore migration of work in the midst of a recession, and the highest unemployment in many years, is simply disgusting. Companies should be financially punished when they send work out of the country. Sadly though they get rewarded. Does anyone else see what's wrong with this?..mj
4:31:09 PM    


Dell drops prison labor
Company finds new recycling vendor

Dell Computer said Thursday it will stop using a contractor that relies on prison labor to dismantle and recycle computers.

The computer giant has been under pressure since last week to sever ties with UNICOR, a government-run corporation that uses federal inmates for a variety of money-making ventures...more [CNN]

The old comparisons to Chinese labor camps comes to mind when I read these stories. Use of inmate labor is an issue that stirs strong debate due to the morality of using a captive labor force...mj
10:44:09 AM    


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