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This 5-page paper discusses trends in employment offshoring/outsourcing. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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such activities ultimately save money and make companies more competitive globally, while critics point to the fact that outsourced/offshored jobs mean a higher overall unemployment rate.
Whatever the opinion of outsourcing and/or offshoring, these concepts arent going away any time soon. As a result, its important to have an understanding of trends impacting
these concepts. In an effort to gain a better grasp of outsourcing and offshoring, well focus on two trends; that of compliance challenges and questionable economics. Growing Employee Compliance Challenges
The current (if sluggish) recovery means business is starting to pick up once again. But companies that laid off a great number of
their employees in response to the recession are reluctant to hire a permanent labor force. In response, theyre turning to temporary workers to save costs. Callahan points out that the
current workforce consists of a blended one made up of permanent employees, consultants and contingent workers (Callahan). Though this type of workforce might seem to be efficient from an economic
and productivity point of view (see more below), there are also legal and regulation headaches that this type of "blending" can create (Callahan).
One issue, especially in the United States, is that government agencies are paying mor attention to labor practices, and wont hesitate to come down on businesses that dont pay or
treat their workers in an appropriate fashion (Callahan). Employee classification issues are becoming huge in the workplace (Callahan). Such enforcement of currently existing regulations (and the addition of new ones)
means the need for growing attention toward these rules and regulations. For example, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) estimates that has many as
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