Outsourcing firms woes of Bangladeshi workers by Notme dfsfs

Tenaganita, an organisation for renowned human rights of the Southeast Asian nation, did a survey revealing how workers from Bangladesh are migrating in Malaysia and being exploited over there.For the survey they interviewed 150 jobless and stranded Bangladeshi workers and they studied 36 cases of the workers already there who where describing their exploitation as trafficking.The outsourcing companies have to pay between 1,500 and 2,000 Malaysian Ringgit to the Malaysian home ministry, says Tenaganita Director Irene Fernandez.The former president of now dissolved Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies, was arrested for collecting unauthorized fees from workers, after he told reporters that he had to charge more money than the government-fixed rate from the workers. Many recruiting agents from Bangladesh are collecting workers from manpower brokers that make money from the workers pushing the price to two three times more than the actual cost."We are concerned over the 'cuts' the different parties are taking from the total fees paid by the poor Bangladeshi workers," said in a statement Tenaganita."We want the outsourcing strategy for labour employment be scrapped as it has failed and brought human rights violations."The living conditions for the workers are very bad, they say that they were given neither jobs nor food, their passports have been taken away on arrivals, and although they had a contract attested both by the Malaysian home ministry and the Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur they didn't get any job.

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Outsourcing is a hot flavour among tech investors by Notme dfsfs

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is still at start for Africa, but the contact centre market from South Africa is being very strong now. In Kenya it is expected that 30.000 people to have jobs from the BPO sector. The Kenyan Government is now converting the Kenya College of Communications Technology to a specialised BPO centre to educate the young people from there and to boost them up in to the industry.The government expects that major changes will happen in the economy with the help of the outsourcing industry, they are hopping to rake in over $200 million by 2013.The supremacy of BPO is held by India, and other countries from Africa such as Nigeria, Ghana, Egypt and South Africa are considered to be rivals for Kenya's outsourcing industry.Manager of Cascade Global, Peres Were, a local firm specialised in setting up BPO business firms, said that the interest for this sector is growing rapidly."The company is only three years old and has already set up 10 BPO firms. We are currently expanding into Uganda. We are also providing consultancy services to a number of European companies that want to set up call centres in Kenya,"But the biggest problem for a firm to face in Kenya is high bandwidth cost and reliability. Ken-Tech Data, a ten month old BPO firm operating in the CBD, says it spends Sh24,000 a month on a slow and unreliable connection.The government is trying to bandwidth subsidy to the sector for accessing cheap internet.

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Outsourcing industry growing in Africa by Ioana Madalina Tantareanu

For developing countries, outsourcing is big business. Starting always with call centers, some countries like India or China now produce major parts of equipment for Western companies and are renowned for their small wages and hard working employees. These employees are being constantly trained on the job and many have become very good professionals. Even though some Indian software products don't quite meet American standards, the low level of interest in science from American students means that IT companies are forced to hire outside programmers who fit their needs.In recent years, outsourcing has become quite a phenomenon in Africa, too. Countries like South Africa and Ghana take advantage of their natives' near-perfect English accent and opened telemarketing companies to call the UK and the US. Ex-French colonies like Morocco and Tunisia try to contact French speakers and the business is going great, even though it may take a while to catch up with the Asian rivals. This would also be a great way to pull Africa from its under-development: telecommunications companies have had to build the infrastructure needed for long distance calls and thus brought countries like Kenya a little bit closer to 20th century technology. There is still a long way to go, as the continent lacks IT specialists and is facing a severe brain-drain, as well as a passive and pessimistic mindset. Now the Africans have found the way to success, it's only up to them to create strong corporations and start making life better for themselves.

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To-do lists found their solution in outsourcing by Ioana Madalina Tantareanu

Since outsourcing is the business of choice for many developing countries like India, China, Russia or South Africa to name just a few, it's been growing like crazy. Call centers, computer software, customer service or even manufacturing high-tech equipment, no job seems too big for the willing and cheap workers in these countries. The business is flourishing and now it's time to take matters one step further. Some companies hire people to do chores in the name of interested Westerners. Research, sending e-mails, giving wake-up calls, anything you need to be done outsourcers can do it for you. And why not pay someone else to waste time on your annoying everyday activities? If you have enough money to pay the monthly bill and you're generally a busy person, this kind of service is just the thing for you. Sites offering these services can be found by the dozens and their staff is well-trained, polite and hard-working and will do almost anything you ask. There is still a downside: if you start sending work abroad, when do you stop and draw the line? Asking your Indian assistant to do research for you is one thing, but if she's the one reading your child the bedtime story every night, you might be heading for serious problems. This personal type of outsourcing is more reliable than sending big manufacturing tasks overseas. It's a way for the developing countries to grow by their own power; many companies are created by native people without foreign intervention, as is the case with previous forms of outsourcing.

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The end of printed newspapers? by Ioana Madalina Tantareanu

The Boston Herald has antiquated production systems which produce paper inefficiently.This is why they're looking to outsource their printing operations.Some people just love this word..."outsourcing".I've heard it for so many times this year and last year that if I wasn't going to call 2007 "the iPhone year", I would definitely call it "the outsourcing year".What does it actually mean? "Outsourcing represents work done for a company by people other than the company's full-time employees."(according to www.investerwords.com). It's a new term, appeared in the '80s but I resent it because it's used for everything.The Boston Herald spoke to Dow Jones & Co.about outsourcing printing operations from Boston to a Dow Jones-owned press in Chicopee, MA, located in the western part of the state.Rupert Murdoch was the former of The Boston Herald and he sold it in 1994. He now owns News Corp and he talked about eliminating the printed edition of the Wall Street Journal- Dow Jones' main treasure.Perhaps it's about time we stop cutting trees like maniacs when we live in a digitalized world. Sure the smell of a paper is unpriceable but who buys papers any longer? Everybody is reading the press on the Internet, from work or from home. I won't comment on weather spending hours in front of a computer is a good thing or not but perhaps the Boston Herald should outsource somewhere else and never mind producing paper but invest in a good digital edition.I am sure this is the future, and we'll adapt rapidly to this sort of change.

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