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[tags]freelance job sites, outsource, home based job, work from home, freelancers, developer, php, cgi, java, html[/tags]

Bank of America actively outsources its tech jobs to India. Former tech staff of the company lose the jobs, but in addition to that they have to train their Indian replacement to get their severance pay.

In fact it is a common practice for most companies worldwide – to train a replacement. But an interesting fact about Bank of America situation is that some Indians come to the USA for training and never leave. So, Bank of America hires Indians to work in the USA. How can it be? The Indians work for some Indian tech companies (for Infosys Technologies and Tata Consultancy Services and not for Bank of America) for half the pay of a US worker.

Bank of America says outsourcing saved about 100 million dollars for the past 5 years. It is rumored that the Bank is going to outsource more jobs (call centers to Latin America) with the increase of Latin customers. The company runs a Culture Connection program that is responsible for outsourcing jobs worldwide.

[tags]bank of America, outsourcing, telecommuting, telecommuting jobs[/tags]

The experts say that the number of full time telecommuters in the USA is about 12,000,000 for the last two years – there is no growth. Yes, telecommute jobs are great for both parties – employer and employee, but not every job is good for that. The below article describes both advantages and disadvantages of the approach.

Brantner is a long-distance telecommuter – and has been for more than four years.

She makes up just a sliver of the work force that is employed in a home office that is far from the company’s main headquarters. Yet a number of businesses have gone to geographic extremes by allowing workers to telecommute full time – even if they live halfway around the world.

“I would highly recommend it,” said Brantner, 39, who supervises three workers in San Francisco through e-mail, teleconferencing and trips to California a few times a year for face time with her employees.

Read the full article

Summary: to be or not to be – that is no more a question. The question of the moment – will telecommute jobs grow and become dominant. The forecast: not likely. Those jobs that can adopt a telecommuting approach have already done that, but there are thousands of jobs simply exceed the limits.

[tags]telecommute, jobs, home business, work from home, outsourcing[/tags]