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

[Jason Reep]

thumbs up.


On Nov 20, 2003, at 6:44 PM, jonathan lawson wrote:

> subtitle:
> 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.
>
> <p><a  
> href="http://www.washtech.org/wt/news/industry/display.php? 
> ID_Content=4632">
> WashTech has the complete story.</a>
>
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