The world has been seeing since many years that the BPO and outsourcing industries of the philippics have been growing and developing at a fast pace, aimed at serving the country's economy and lowering down the levels of joblessness. While the industry has been growing with all its promises, it has unfortunately not been able to produce and even hire as many skilled labors as it required. Read more.. http://news.emenac.com/philippines-bpo-industry-seeking-government-aid-to-produce-more-skilled-labor/

On the 18th of October 2012, residents of the American city of Attleboro, Massachusetts came out into the streets holding banners and placards against senator Mitt Romney for his policy that allowed for outsourcing. The residents of Attleboro argued that this is taking away jobs from them and while the United States is already going through severe economic crises where people are increasingly becoming jobless and no jobs are available for new graduates, such a policy is a disaster. Read more.. http://news.emenac.com/protests-take-center-stage-in-massachusetts-as-outsourcing-continues/

While the technology is bettering with each passing minute and newer things are coming up, the gaming consoles are developing in their own bubble. From Nintendo to Sony's Play Station to Gameboy to Xbox from Microsoft, gaming consoled and games have always been popular and largely bought. As the latest version of Xbox, Xbox 720, is released, Microsoft has also announced that it will go entirely digital. With the gaming going digital, the need for customer support becomes inevitable. Read more... http://news.emenac.com/xbox-720-goes-digital-bringing-out-need-for-247-customer-support/

Malaysian Transport Minister, Datuk Seri Kong Cho Ha, said that outsourcing the placement and handling of Automated Enforcement System cameras is a common practice and hence, has been implemented for Malaysia too. He claimed that the government had done nothing unusual or wrong and that this step would actually prove to be helpful for the country's roads and traffic. Read more... http://news.emenac.com/road-safety-and-traffic-handling-tasks-also-being-outsourced/

While the world is now looking into the United States and its hot political goings-on owing to the presidential elections, the Obama-Romney debate over taxation in the country and outsourcing of service continues, remaining one of the highest discussed topics alongside the elections. After a long gap, Republican Mitt Romney and the Democrat President Barack Obama once again had a quarrel over the issue of outsourcing; something that they have been doing since quite some time now. Read more... http://news.emenac.com/obama-and-romney-quarrel-once-again-regarding-their-takes-on-outsourcing/

In Canada, help desk support has now entered the world of loud computing and become way handier than ever before. With the cloud technology having taken the world by a storm, everything seems to be going into the signals. Same has been the case with this emergency service that is aimed at troubleshooting the problems arising with notebooks, tablet PCs and smartphone as well as the theft of such products. Incidents are reported to the authorities in time, as soon as one takes place and action is taken proficiently. Read more.. http://news.emenac.com/help-desk-services-go-high-tech-for-tablet-notebook-and-smartphone-users/

While telephonic services have long been the way to report complaints and interact with customer care programs, with changing times, this is also changing rapidly. In Indonesia, people have now started to use social media websites as the new medium to enter complaints as more than anything else, people today use social media websites almost all day long. Even though other sources such as text messaging, email, mobile applications and websites are also in common usage, social media is fast becoming popular. Read more... http://news.emenac.com/social-media-the-new-way-to-get-customer-support-services/

Up till now, the ongoing debate of President Barack Obama and the opposition leader Mitt Romney was often the headline of the day. This debate was about the outsourcing policy that was America was to follow. While Obama was never very happy with the trend of American businesses outsourcing services to Philippines, India, China and other South Asian courtiers, Romney was always in support of outsourcing and many companies that he owned were actually involved with large scale outsourcing. Read more... http://news.emenac.com/filipino-outsourcing-industry-announces-its-support-for-american-businesses-and-economy/

Until 2010, President Barack Obama did not seem to have any issues with outsourcing and was actually, aiding the practice inside the country. By the end of his first term though, he went crucially against the practice and often ended up quarrelling with the Republican, Mitt Romney who supported the practice at large and was openly involved into it. Debated on the subject opened time and again in the parliament and even though conclusion was ever reached, both the leaders maintained their points of view. Awais Gillani of Emenac Inc., however, thinks that the outsourcing scenario will only get better in Asia. Read more... http://news.emenac.com/with-president-obama-having-won-the-elections-emenac-inc-announces-high-hopes-for-the-offshore-outsourcing/

According to Juanloz Botor, the president of HIMOAP (Healthcare Information Management Outsourcing Association of the Philippines) says that the growth of healthcare outsourcing has projected from $433 million and is expected to reach $1 billion by 2016. With this growth, the industry is also expecting to increase hiring from 43,000 to over 100,000. These employees will be full-time employees and the industry is expecting to meet the goal, says Botor. Read more... http://news.emenac.com/healthcare-outsourcing-to-earn-1-billion-of-the-philippines-in-the-next-4-years/

While the debate of outsourcing versus improvement of technology has taken a rise in Australia, the CFO of NSW Planning and Infrastructure Department, Stephen Payne, says that "cost reduction won't do it for you. You have to focus on process improvement." Payne goes on to say that today, technology is everything and to explain that, he even went into detail focusing on how helpful mobile devices are. His argument might be true but then, there is another side of the debate which says that technology alone cannot help when the strategies are not effective and when there is not much budget for affording in-house jobs.

A research led into the subject found out that in 2010, the total outsourcing from UK's IT sector was just worth £199bn as opposed to £207bn. This accounted for 7.4% of the total production of the region. Data related services and IT services were the biggest sub-sector of outsourcing and contributed around £3.8bn of the total outsourcing sector. In 2009, the sector was worth £207bn which shows that there has been a sharp decline in sales. The IT sector has dropped by £3bn according to the report.