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    Some investors acclaimed United States private equity firm Bain Capital Partners’ plan to purchase a 30 percent investment in technology outsourcing services provider Genpact Ltd. that deliver their shares to their highest in approximately two years. Co-founded by United States presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Bain Capital will pay about $14.76 each share or $1 billion to purchase 68 million Genpact shares from Oak hill Capital Partners and General Atlantic.

    The agreement will lessen the combined investment of Genpact’s two major stakeholders to almost 10 percent from 40 percent. William Blair analysts Bhavan Suri noted that they believe the loom of a potential secondary offering is caused by the end of life of Oak Hill’s fund had actualized the stock price. He added that the acquisitions of 30 percent by bain with a two and a half year constraint on selling any stocks should lessen much of that twist.

    Genpact has a market value of almost $3.82 billion and in 1997 it was set up by General Electric Co. in the north Indian city or Gurgaon to support back-office services to its group firms, in 2005 it was widened as a separate firm. According to Chief Executive N.V. Tiger Tyagarajan said that since seven years ago the two firms Oak Hill capital and General Atlantic were investors. It supported them to innovate from a confined unit to a transformed business today that perform technology services and business process management all over the world.

    He added that since General Atlantic and Oak Hill arrived, the firm has improved five times in size. Genpact will pay a special dividend which cost $2.24 per share to all stakeholders that includes General Atlantic and Oak Hill before the stake sale. Earlier this month, Reuters reported that Bain Capital was in advanced meeting with the Government of Singapore Investment Corp to produce a combined bid for a 40 percent stake for $1.5 to $2 billion in Genpact.

    According to Thomson Reuters, Genpact also forecasts full-year profit of $1.86 billion to $1.9 billion, this shows up largely over analyst expectations of $1.89 billion. Tyagarajan said that in spite of the softness in optional spend that is there in several parts they have done well in the first half of the year. In the second quarter, the firm gained an adjusted profit of 32 cents per share on its revenue of $467.6 million. On Tuesday, smaller opponent ExlService Holdings Inc established a better than expected quarter for its data analytics services and acknowledged its full year profit forecast.

     

     

     

    REFERENCES:

    http://profit.ndtv.com/news/market/article-investors-cheer-bain-capitals-genpact-stake-buy-shares-rise-308763

    http://www.google.com.ph/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=investors%20cheer%20bain%20capital%27s%20genpact%20stake%20buy%2C%20shares%20rise&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CCwQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Farticle.wn.com%2Fview%2F2012%2F08%2F02%2FInvestors_cheer_Bain_Capitals_Genpact_stake_buy_shares_rise%2F&ei=kUJhUL3qO8iKiALNpYGoBQ&usg=AFQjCNEd11G3S9mWaYDr392fxoWj6XGisA

    http://www.silobreaker.com/investors-cheer-bain-capitals-genpact-stake-buy-shares-rise-5_2265879091217432915

    http://www.indiaeveryday.in/finance/news-investors-cheer-bain-capitals-genpact-stake-buy-shares-1027-4215124.htm

     

    After a long wait of the community leaders, they were excited as they saw a potentially inspiring force with last year’s promise of Google to provide schools, libraries, homes and other public organization in this city with the fastest Internet connection. They expected an inducement for developers to create in the communities and the new educational probability for their youth. Google declared a procedure whichever only those places where ample residents pre-registered and a $10 payment deposit would acquire the service Google Fiber. Almost white community was registered than black society and the cutoff of the registration was Sunday midnight.

    Some concerns might deepen, as the vision of some black community in the city could not acquire access to the technology that intensified the long ethnic isolation. The executive director of the neighborhood council in Ivanhoe, Margaret May said that this is just an instance of individual that acquire minimum income and sometimes gets below average educated people that was being left out. In 2009, Ivanhoe is one of the places where the insufficiency rate was about 46 percent. Kansas City has been separated by racial division that still existing, most of the blacks in the city were constrained to the people in the east.

    Micah Kubic together with the non-profit Greater Kansas City Local Initiatives Support Corporation said that the outcome of both unconcealed and uncommunicative efforts to keep the black community out of housing areas and schools of the white people and some historical patterns of population development and decisions. Between the blacks and the whites are the dividing lines and it is the Troost Avenue. Approximated three out of four people reside in the east of the Troost Avenue is black, it is based on the analysis report of the Census in 2012 by a sociology professor at Queens College in New York City, Andrew Beveridge.

    They did not exploit west of Troost because of the fear of harassment coming from the police said by one of the black residents. Nowadays, some people were convincing residents on the importance of Internet access, it may help them to apply for jobs, do some research and be knowledgeable in the government services. But apparently, 46 percent of the blacks do not have and use Internet connections and 25 percent of homes in the Kansas City do not have broadband. The qualified people will acquire Internet services with speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second. Aside from that, Google offers a television service together with Internet for about $120 a month.

    For free, a gigabit connection might get by the libraries, hospital, schools and other society in the place. Google plan to announce the qualified people on Monday, however, the unqualified individuals will still get a chance in the future. The community groups in Kansan will also get an assistance to advocate digital knowledge. However, some people were worried as when the service was not available in their place, the schools and hospitals might fall apart and companies that depend on the connection might not succeed.

     

     

    REFERENCES:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/us/in-one-city-signing-up-for-internet-becomes-a-civic-cause.html?pagewanted=1&ref=us

    http://www.silobreaker.com/in-one-city-signing-up-for-internet-becomes-a-civic-cause-5_2265966153425748001

    http://article.wn.com/view/2012/09/10/In_One_City_Signing_Up_for_Internet_Becomes_a_Civic_Cause/

    As the back-office and call center works had carried out all over the world, there is one outsourcing company that observes other companies that wants to bring back the work in the United States. The president of U.S. operations for outsourcing firm CGI Group Inc., George Schindler said that some companies want a result that is certain and foreseeable and has a lower workforce output over what they get from their foreign stations.

    For Americans, it sounds like a good news for them especially for unemployed individuals, as some companies extremely determine if what step should they really need to do regionally, but until now there isn’t a development of bringing back the back-office work. Mr. Schindler added that the companies are not convinced with the quality they get from overseas function and they can’t manage to bring back the work twice or thrice.

    For two years, as an overseas outsourcer defeated the upgrade of a bank’s software, to cease the project at one of its United States offices the bank engaged with IT developers of CGI. And for the result the work executed in only two weeks time. CGI Group Inc. performs overseas places like in Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai and other outsourcing locations. However, as the huge companies want to push the business process works offshore, at this time they are planning what should they need to do locally in the U.S..

    Mr. Schindler also said that many companies are performing their business process, consulting work and technology all over the globe but entrusting much of it locally. However, there is a reduced location specific work that they need to do in nearby time zones, in a place that can easily be visited by managers in a less amount of time and with individuals that has American accents, that can easily deal with top U.S. managers.

    Some companies can outsource to India but they also keep their agents in Canada and United States to cater the urgency of some callers who wants individuals that has an American accent. Some businesses like healthcare companies, contractors and even the government agencies have security requirements that restrain their ability to exchange data over the U.S. boundary, and some of it was afraid about the political stability of government all over the world.

    Finally, the work has been assigned to one of the CGI’s three rural U.S. centers such as in Belton, Tex., Troy, Ala., and in Lebanon, Va. where many people will surely work. In April, the company created its $7 million Belton hub that aims to employ professionals from Fort Hood, each of these centers will employ over 350 to 450 individuals. As they pay more than similar work in India, the U.S. work are not that profitable as situations in larger cities.

    However, the centers standoff from a circle of locals who choose to live in a minor city that keeps the outcome flat. Mr. Schindler stated that the lower priority job that can be done in a minimal amount of time is still transmitted to the Philippines or in India. Chief operating officer of executive-search firm DHR International based in Chicago, Greg Hoffmann stated that over the next 5 years, a European manufacturer is strengthening its North American share of about 75 percent.

     

     

     

    REFERENCES:

    http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/08/28/outsourcing-firm-sees-demand-for-u-s-operations/

    http://ewallstreeter.com/outsourcing-firm-sees-demand-for-u-s-operations-4408/

    http://inagist.com/all/240519824780963840/

     

    There will come a time where the corporate employees would be enforced to use their personal gadgets such as tablet computers, cellphones and other devices in their job. Last month the guidance unleashed some advices for agencies to acknowledge the presence of BYOD program or the bring your own device should be necessary. It will be a step from the unforced programs agencies like in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Merit Systems Protection Board and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that has been established.

    The said compulsory program would be a huge change when it comes to the costs of purchasing, utilizing and repairing smartphones and mobile phones from the company to their staff, this is a consumption that will raise such concerns within the association and the staff. There is no given information that the guidance rendered on how it might function, either the employees would be compensated for the costs of using their own gadgets is still questionable. However it gives an ideal policy that shows the state of Delaware’s requirements for compensation and the guidance recognizes that BYOD programs may call for government compensation.

    Other information technology executives wish to terminate issues from the government with the smartphones and other mobile devices, even though there is no firm that declared the necessary BYOD program. During the previous conference call, the chief information officer of the Veterans Affairs Department, Roger Baker said that he could visualize them 5 years from now in the situation where he did not even bring out devices. Baker’s perception is not that hard to believe since some agencies are beneath the White House orders and the   IT budgets are rejected to minimize the number of laptop and desktop computers and even the smartphones.

    Most of the association has their personal smartphones that are more useful than the government devices. Approximately $1.2 billion yearly was the total spendings of the federal government for wireless and mobile devices and services and its active accounts is about 1.5 million. Some private companies required the BYOD program and the cloud solution provider VMware is one of that firm. Necessarily the employees have the option whether use their own devices or keep the company’s smartphones and pay the expenses. Compensations are given based on the employee’s job, said by the product marketing manager of VMware, Ben Goodman.

    VMware has their own social networking site where the staff can share tips with what is the best wireless plans for their mobile devices. There were no incentives for the staff to have the cheapest plans when the VMware paid the corporate devices, BYOD let the end user to engage in minimizing the company’s expenses. In May, the administration’s Digital Government Strategy was released the latest federal guidance, it is a guide where in there is a sample document for evaluating BYOD policies and some case studies of outstanding programs. The new guidance advises that the program is not applicable for all companies because of the legal and security questions, however it allows staff the adaptability that boost their work rate.

     

     

    REFERENCES:

    http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20120902/IT03/309020001/Agencies-can-mandate-personal-phones?odyssey=nav|head

    http://www.google.com.ph/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=agencies%20can%20mandate%20personal%20phones&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CCgQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.silobreaker.com%2Fagencies-can-mandate-personal-phones-5_2265949498616315940&ei=VmVFUN69OaeJiwKG4oC4BQ&usg=AFQjCNEb8rIzEGuU_IH7wxasJ3O58jBL-Q

    Network managers are progressively imposed for security and balance utility, as the administration approaches more company data on their tablet computers and smartphones. Some challenges they encounter includes the use of new tools and techniques that manages the devices on the network, supervising some troubleshooting bandwidth issues and more network traffic since the companies are using more data and how they can keep tabs on the evolving number of mobile devices that connects on their networks.

    The director of security services and chief information security officer at a program management and information technology services firm Creative Computing Solutions Inc., Joe Beal said that it was a race where in they try to lead along with the curve. Some agencies are not just utilizing desktop computers owned by the agencies that was in the four corners of their office and arranged with required security settings. To get the data with the virtual private networks or any other ways, feds are using laptop computers and some are with their personal mobile devices.

    Beal was also signed a security contract work for the Department of Homeland Security and stated that the network boundary evolved into uncertainty and the attack surface has become high. He added that the more devices that are being connected to the network, the more they need to control and evaluate it. The company should know how to control and track down the devices that are being connected to their networks. In the previous years as they were government-issued, some network managers understand the virtual path devices that they obtain to get the function of the network and to distinguish where the devices comes from.

    However things have changed, based in the Digital Government Security announced last May, the total costs of the federal government annually for mobile and wireless devices and services was approximately $1.2 billion and the active accounts was about 1.5 million. As companies advance their adoption of the latest mobile technologies, the numbers will just grow. The chief security strategist in Citrix Systems, Kurt Roemer said that some individuals are not only using their company’s network to distribute data and resources. Nowadays, people are working in the hotels, home offices and other places.

    The network is in anywhere and it is far beyond their supervision. To give their employees with safe access to agency data even in using their own government or personal devices, companies is being required to adopt in the latest technologies. Some solutions require to download third-party software on the employees’ devices and other firms are using versions of that software. The mobile application management manages the access to agency applications on the device and it decreases the focused on the security settings of that device.

    The CEO and co-founder of Plixer International, Michael Patterson said that the network managers should acknowledge how much bandwidth consumes in their networks by different applications like iTunes and YouTube. He added that the companies should set rules to boost the bandwidth they have and prevent to spend more resources.

     

     

    REFERENCES:

    http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20120902/IT03/309020001/Agencies-can-mandate-personal-phones?odyssey=nav|head

    http://hightechnologyforensics.com/as-technology-goes-mobile-network-managers-try-to-keep-up-federal-times/

    http://www.infosecmagazine.com/?title=As_technology_goes_mobile_network_managers_try_to_keep_up_Federal_Times

     

    Indian outsourcers earnings will give distress about the spending of Europe and United States clients in a uncertain global economy, in the second half of the year it assumed to weaken hopes that the demand will lift up. About three-quarters of its revenue coming from the customers in Europe and United States earned almost $100 billion per year by the Indian IT-enabled services and information technology industry.

    India’s second major IT company and the only top-three vendor Infosys Ltd. to support a full-year forecast, said by an analyst. As it posts quarterly earnings on July 12 to cut its revenue increase estimate for the recent fiscal year to as low as 5 percent. For the fiscal year ending March 2013, the firm in April had prediction of 8 to 10 percent of growth and on the day there was a disappointing investors enough to decrease 13 percent of its market value, because of that it gained almost 2 percent.

    The industry lobby Nasscom or the National Association of software and Service Companies assumes that the industry will increase exports by 11 to 14 percent in the present fiscal year that will end by March. Due to continued euro-zone crisis and the absence of definite data that an economic recovery is in process in the United States, the largest market of Indian IT-enabled service providers and information technology industry, the customers continue to prevent optional spending.

    The head of research at BNP Paribas Mutual Fund, Apurva Shah  said that they hope for an improvement in the second half and it continues to be just hope that controls investments of almost $170 million that includes in the major Indian IT firms. He added that because of the remaining uncertainty in the optional spending and demand environment not coming through the cost was narrow on the sector.

    The slow-moving global economy is motivating clients to ask for more for every dollar consume, and this increases the pressure on billing rates in a commoditized series of services that Indian companies opposing with IBM and Accenture that depend on for the revenue amount. Chairman Ratan Tata of Tata Consultancy Services stated at the company’s annual shareholder conference that the exhausted situation on the west appears to still remain to be of issue, however the hopes are that they will recover moderately.

    This year, the shares of Infosys were about $25 billion and it decreases of about 11.5 percent, on the other hand, TCS increased by 8.7 percent and 13 percent had obtained by the Sensex. The chief executive of Equirus Securities, Bhavin Shah said that a sluggish first half have been dispersed everywhere but the hopes of recovery in 2HFY13 are vanishing fast. Analysts anticipated no sequential dollar-term sales increase for Infosys for the June quarter.

    Aniruddha Bhosale, Deutsche  Bank analyst said that assumed it to report sequential growth by TCS by 2.6 percent. Infosys announced a profit of 2,300 crore compare last year with about 1,720 crore while TCS has 2,970 crore and increased 23.3 percent over the year-earlier period. During the quarter, the firms are anticipated to benefit from a 8.5 percent fall in the rupee but, due to the move in the British pound and Euro against U.S. dollar some negative cross-currency effect has occurred.

     

     

    REFERENCES:

    http://profit.ndtv.com/news/earnings/article-ahead-of-earnings-us-europe-worries-weigh-on-indian-it-majors-307702

     

    Before hackers do some unwanted things, some federal civilian companies finally have huge access to centralized groups of cybersecurity professionals as they are prepared to spot network accountabilities. The Department of Homeland Security is lending money to propose to the civilian companies the penetration testing services that for a long time supported by the National Security Agency to the intelligence community and the Defense Department.

    In an interview, the cybersecurity assurance program manager for DHD’s FNS or Federal Network Security branch, Don Benack said that earlier in their entry in February, the National Security Agency or NSA red teams has no federal civilian equivalent. Vanee Vines, the spokeswoman of NSA stated that the NSA everyday manages penetration testing for civilian agencies. Benack added that FNS is managing the same skills and tool sets but in a distinct way, in contrary to the usual penetration testing that includes hacking into a system to  see that there are imperfections.

    Companies can now select any information technology, application or network solution that they want to evaluate and FNS will conclude if  the system can fight the attack and most of the fatal issues, aside from that it will regulate if the security measures require adjustment. Their goal is to gather data that would be useful to create annual reports on the status of the federal network security and not just to enhance the federal cyber defenses. The unwanted data would be used to give information to sharpen related national security enthusiasm and the data would be cleansed with the data that could distinguish an agency.

    Previously, some companies’ selections for penetration testing have limits and very costly. Rob Karas, the risk evaluation program manager for the FNS branch said that agencies can do the penetration tests within themselves, purchase the testing tools and can depend on in-house professionals to manage them or either used contractors. Benack added that if the IT budget of a company was just a small amount the tool may not be a good help, however, if the agency buy the $100,000 tool and use it with different agencies, it seems that it was a good investment.

    Karas stated that the red team penetration tests are complimentary to agencies and it began upon request. Some companies can request testing for a particular system peculiar to hazard they are worried about. Most of the agencies now are requesting for security checks of their Web applications wherein the board is logging in and use to connect with the agency data through the Internet. FNS will organize a cloud security test next month to check if the agency’s cloud solution can be used only within the network.

    Benack and Karas assume business will also uplift in other field like as mobile security as they allow personal devices to access in their network. For the red team activities this fiscal year FNS got about $7 million and $8 million. FNS has 18 federal staff and contractor support employees for its blue and red team. FNS still depend on the employees of the Air Force, the Defense Information Systems Agency, NSA and other agency to allocate training procedures and tactics.

     

     

    REFERENCES:

    http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20120823/IT03/308230004/Red-teams-put-cybersecurity-test?odyssey=mod_sectionstories

    http://www.silobreaker.com/red-teams-put-cybersecurity-to-the-test-5_2265925699128787053

    http://www.thornstrom.net/2012/08/24/red-teams-put-cybersecurity-to-the-test/

     

     

    In hiring a cleaning service or personal assistant, outsourcing chores might sound like the kind of dispense that a slump-era budget would quickly eliminate.  Outsourcing a definite household tasks can end up saving so much time and energy wherein the cost is well worth it.

    The author of the Millionaire Mommy Next Door blog, Jen Smith who is based in Colorado, says that her house cleaner and personal assistant who is incharge to take care of bills and balancing the household checking accounts make it possible to run their multiple business.  This includes the financial coaching, writing, and managing Web content.  Outsourcing helps them lot,  she also have time to her family.  Outsourcing can accomplish more, because outsourcing can make money and can have more free time.

    It was more common  in hiring domestic help, this is nothing new.  There were 1.4 million domestic servants in 1990 base in the  Census Bureau reports.  The domestic servants helped in cleaning, cooking, child care and other responsibilities.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    REFERENCE:

    http://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/articles/2009/06/30/why-you-should-outsource-domestic-chores-now

     

    The public school district in Michigan is facing such problem with its education system and the only solution they think is to outsource all of it. Highland Park School District is one of the lowest performing schools in the state. And eventually it will transfer its three schools and almost 1,000 students to a private for profit charter school company which is the second district in Michigan City to take this kind of action to prevent its financial breakdown.

    The last week hasty news gave such concern and some ease from other residents especially parents who quickly called a night meeting in the indistinct industrial city. The parents want to hear the side of the charter company which is the Leona Group LLC that insures to increase the learning capabilities and develop student abilities in a school where in the last school year only 22 percent of third graders passed the reading exams and in their math subject only 10 percent passed. But the worst was the outcome of the high school students’ exam which is in math no one passed and in reading exam only 10 percent.

    The district nationwide are studying different approaches to motivate schools financially and academically, it includes isolation of the whole staff or allow other outside groups to run their several schools. Some district in Georgia has transferred into charter districts to escape from teacher salary schedules and under state class-size. The district administration typically resides in place and supervise schools, however each school manages a council of teachers and parents that decide on its budget.

    In New Orleans, one of the greatest steps they take is by transferring most of the schools into charters and letting students use state-funded vouchers to show up in private schools. The charter schools are public schools that operate by outside groups that use taxpayer funds. Some say that the action serves as an aid to other school districts who faces the same problem. In the year 2011 based on the most current state data, 48 out of 793 districts in Michigan ran deficiencies with a total of $429 million over with 18 districts with $59 million in combined shortcomings in 2004-2005.

    Highland Park chooses to privatize  its schools after years of enrollment downfall, the district spent over $16,508 for each student during the 2010-2011 school year compared to $9,202 per student in Michigan districts. Highland Park established an $11.3 million deficiency over the school budget of $18.9 million. Joyce Parker who was appointed as district emergency manager by Republican Gov. Rick Snyder in May stated that the district got into much trouble as it didn’t decrease its staff as quickly as its enrollment failure furthermore with the city’s population that leads to higher expenses per student.

    Using the local property taxes that have recently gone to operate the schools, the district will reside as an entity operate by Ms. Parker to fix its debt with an amount of $5 million. In state funding, a Phoenix-based Leona will get $7,110 every student, in addition the Highland Park District will pay a $780,000 yearly management fee to Leona. The firm said that Leona has hired back 70 percent of the teachers. The latest city charter board will guide the firm’s development in enhancing the student performance with Leona’s 5 year contract.

     

    REFERENCES:
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443545504577565363559208238.html

    http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=22237\

    http://www.joannejacobs.com/2012/08/michigan-city-outsources-all-its-schools/

     

    Since several companies started to transfer work abroad like back-office work, accounting and data processing, health-care firms are now shipping clinical services and even decision making when it comes to medical care abroad specifically countries like the Philippines and India. Nowadays, the job that being shifted involves pre-service nursing, where in nurses are being hired by the insurance firms and their tasks is to provide the needs of their patients and wrap up some ways to treat their illnesses. Outsourcing these kind of work serves as a big help for health-care companies especially in meeting its demands in a short period of time, specifically, health-care firms hired out some health experts overseas.

    However, the new outsourcing that contribute to the failure of numerous domestic health jobs is carried out for financial purposes. In detail, outsourcing of nursing tasks seems to be the most unusual and at the same time the most precarious jobs being transferred. WellPoint Inc. is the center of that innovation, they are one of the huge health insurers and chief of the largest for-profit medical insure in California, the Anthem Blue Cross. During the year 2010, Wellpoint established a distinct business unit that aims to achieve other cost-saving ways and advanced outsourcing strategies, and this is called the Radiant Services.

    A company spokesman stated that since last 18 months, WellPoint Inc. has dropped hundreds of jobs in the U.S. and transferred jobs abroad. Wellpoint’s transferring of health-care jobs abroad serves as a small part of outsourcing and carried out by Radiant as it has technical prowess and can guarantee conformity with laws said by Kristin Binns, spokesman of WellPoint. Nevertheless, nursing organizations were very vigilant about this trend. A spokesman for the California Nurses Association, Chuck Idelson said that the trend is very alarming. There are also some issues as it needs certification for those who studies  and measures health details, nursing experts said.

    Companies were progressively searching for health-care jobs that could be outsourced anywhere as they encounter cost flaws and also they are looking for some innovation to do the business. Outsourcing restricted to IT and administration functions, Health Net Inc., that lays off hundreds of their accounting and information technology staff whose work is being outsourced to India. In the presidential campaign of President Barack Obama, outsourcing jobs overseas has been a furious topic. In the previous years, American manufacturers rebuilt some jobs in the U.S. as labor expenses have increased in different places like in China.

    While some experts claimed that outsourcing jobs overseas can help U.S. firms by gaining more profit and allowing them to adopt in global talent and capabilities. As U.S. firms are powerful, more chances will exist for American employees. Almost 30 percent can save by the U.S. health-care firms as they outsourced in places with low-labor costs like in the Philippines. However, the trend stays controversial, as U.S. unemployment rate continues to increase by approximately 8 percent. The state government officials and the company managers were supporting secure federal trade-assistance benefits for WellPoint staff who have removed on their jobs due to outsourcing.

     

     

    REFERENCES:

    http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/home/top-news/30484-us-health-firms-outsource-jobs-to-phl

    http://www.bpap.org/media-room/it-bpo-industry-news/499-us-health-firms-outsource-jobs-to-phl

    http://globalizationtoday.com/us-health-firms-outsource-jobs-to-phl-business-mirror/