For years, U.S. companies have been saving money by "offshoring" jobs — hiring people in India and other distant cubicle farms.
Today, jobs are being offshored again, back to the United States.
Nexient, a software outsourcing company, reflects the evolving geography of technology work. It holds daily video meetings with one of its clients, Bill.com, where team members stand up and say into the camera what they accomplished yesterday for Bill.com, and what they plan to do tomorrow. The difference is, they are phoning in from Michigan, not Mumbai.
"It's the first time we've been happy outsourcing," said René Lacerte, chief executive of Bill.com, a bill payment-and-collection service based in Palo Alto, California.
Nexient is a domestic outsourcer, a flourishing niche in the tech world as some U.S. companies pull back from the idea of hiring programmers a world away.
Source: http://www.bendbulletin.com/home/5484216-151/the-new-hot-spot-for-outsourcing-the-us
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 02 2017, @02:54PM (4 children)
It's remote work where remote workers have to justify another day of continued employment every day. Nobody cares where the losers are located.
Check out the trendy hipsters in TFA with their sandals, thigh tattoos, cargo shorts, T shirts, and nerd glasses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 02 2017, @03:11PM (3 children)
"Check out the trendy hipsters"
since it is Silicon Valley, you have the Hispanic cleaning worker too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 02 2017, @04:08PM (2 children)
How much is that DeVry in the window? Gee I wonder where Nexient interns come from.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 02 2017, @05:52PM (1 child)
"Gee I wonder where Nexient interns come from."
Starbucks and Chipotle.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 02 2017, @06:32PM
First World Problem: Chipotle doesn't have free wifi.
First World Solution: use neighboring Starbucks wifi through the wall.