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No Jobs for U.S. workers declares Bill Johnson, CEO at Heinz, on Wall Street Journal Report last Saturday Last Saturday, the CEO of Heinz, best known for ketchup production, told Maria Bartiromo that Heinz will not be hiring Americans this year. The reason he gave was the ‘uncertainty’ produced by the ‘inability’ of the government to decide on really important things such as the tax rate his business will pay. He announced at the same time on the same program that Heinz will be opening facilities and hiring in other countries, and concentrated on China where they make soy sauce.

On the measurability of offshorability Alan S. Blinder 9 October 2009 Fear of offshoring may force its way back onto policy agendas soon. This column uses a survey of individual workers to measure the offshorability of particular jobs and says that about 25% of US jobs are offshorable. Surprisingly, routine tasks are not more offshorable but those held by more educated workers are. Although overshadowed by the financial crisis and the world recession right now, the debate over offshoring – that is, outsourcing work to foreign (often poorer) countries – seems poised to stage a comeback as a public policy...

US Senator and former Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry today denied that he was opposed to outsourcing IT jobs to India and said "any company has a right to make an economic decision that it wants." "What I opposed was the non-economic choice made by some companies with an eye on tax benefits. I was worried about loss of pension and healthcare benefits," he told reporters after meeting Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy here. Kerry, who is here as part of his India tour, said he would meet CEOs of IT companies for a "first hand understanding...

20th August, 2020 was only a month away. And Jay Palvayantewsky was all tensed up by the mere thought of it, because it was on that fateful day his current job assignment was getting over. Neither he nor his boss knew if the global behemoth Infosys would renew their project or if they had to pack their bags and return to the good old USA. Life sucked when you were just one of the crores of foreigners in India on a temporary H1-B visa where your every move was dictated by the capricious and ever-changing Indian immigration laws. There was...

BusinessInfosys reverses outsourcing trend Bangalore, April 8. (AP): Infosys Technologies, which has risen to become the country's second-largest software maker thanks largely to outsourced work from the West, plans to reverse that trend by investing US$20 million to create nearly 500 consulting jobs in the United States. The company has set up a subsidiary in Fremont, California to provide business consulting to American corporations. The new company, Infosys Consulting, has begun ``aggressive hiring in America,'' Infosys chief executive officer Nandan Nilekani told reporters Thursday. ``As we are looking to expand our global footprint, we are creating local employment in the...

<p>An Ohio company that outsources U.S. medical files to India, including patient records from several California hospitals, was the victim of an extortion attempt in October by its own workers in Bangalore, who threatened to reveal confidential materials unless they received a cash payoff.</p>

As I See It: Jobs and Jehovah by Victor Rozek Hewlett-Packard's CEO, Carly Fiorina, made a provocative statement a while back. "There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore," she said. It was a telling, if somewhat flippant, remark that sought to vindicate the practice of outsourcing, while dismissing opposition to it for not being divinely sanctioned. As a measure of how far we've slid down the outsourcing job drain, Ms. Fiorina apparently could see no benefit in preserving middle class jobs. Indeed, it was a disingenuous statement coming as it did from the CEO of a major...