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

[Gentry Lange]

Approve.

Gentry

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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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href="http://www.washtech.org/wt/news/industry/display.php?ID_Content=4632">
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