With unemployment rates the highest in 16 years and many companies outsourcing non-core functions it is time for businesses to take a stand. IT Tag Team a professional services company in Upstate New York is taking that stand. With their “No Offshore Outsourcing Pledge”, IT Tag Team will spend where they earn by hiring only US based employees for their service offerings.
“We feel it is our civic duty to keep jobs in the country,” explains IT Tag Team President Syd Alsobrook. “We understand outsourcing might be the only way for some companies to stay in business, we just want to keep the jobs here.”
Most research predicts an increase in IT offshore outsourcing. Every position that is offshored is a loss of an American job. With the economy still struggling to get back on it’s feet every job is important.
Source:http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/keeping-jobs-in-america,1185393.shtml
