[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: AT&T Offshoring Jobs

[jonathan lawson]

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Title: AT&T Wireless Exporting Tech Jobs to India

The layoffs happen by ones and twos, AT&T Wireless employees say. Some 
employees are quietly called into a manager's office and simply told that 
their jobs are being eliminated. Others are told that they will be 
participating in a "pilot project" where they are expected to train an 
employee of an offshore outsourcing firm how to perform their job. The goal 
of the pilot project, they later learn, is to move jobs to India, where 
qualified, English-speaking employees will work for as little as 10 percent 
of the salary U.S. workers are paid. Sources say that 70 percent of  the 
company's IT employees, most based in Redmond and Bothell, will lose their 
jobs. If true, Washington's wireless telecom workforce could soon be 
reduced by about 20 percent.

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