Hacker News with Generative AI: Outsourcing

IBM US cuts may run deeper than feared ‒ and the jobs are heading to India (theregister.com)
Following our report last week on IBM's ongoing layoffs, current and former employees got in touch to confirm what many suspected: The US cuts run deeper than reported, and the jobs are heading to India.

Layoffs, Tech Industry, India, United States, Outsourcing

14 points by sleepyguy 5 days ago | 2 comments

American Airlines Moves Up to 30% of Its IT to India (viewfromthewing.com)
American Airlines has long had a significant technology deficit. For instance, when they began adding seats to planes and that caused them to board most domestic aircraft 5 minutes earlier, it took a long time before they updated boarding passes to reflect when flights were actually boarding. Word from their IT shop was that they couldn’t get the resources approved to make the updates.

American Airlines, Technology, India, Outsourcing, Airlines

8 points by miles 27 days ago | 1 comments

Starbucks to Outsource Some Tech Work After Corporate Shake-Up (bloomberg.com)
Starbucks Corp. will outsource some technology work following a reorganization that resulted in 1,100 job cuts across its corporate ranks.

Business, Technology, Outsourcing, Layoffs

3 points by e2e4 35 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: Is your company still outsourcing to Eastern Europe? (ycombinator.com)
Right before the Russia invasion it seemed outsourcing to Ukraine was the latest craze in the tech industry.

Outsourcing, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Technology, Business

8 points by jarsin 94 days ago | 4 comments

Google, Meta, Amazon hire low-paid foreign workers after US layoffs (nypost.com)
Some of the biggest companies in tech including Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Salesforce have hired foreign workers just weeks after reducing headcount by thousands of employees, according to a report.

Tech Industry, Employment, Labor, Immigration, Outsourcing

10 points by lopkeny12ko 97 days ago | 0 comments

PTSD, depression and anxiety: why former FB mods in Kenya are taking action (theguardian.com)
Ex-staff at outsourcing company Samasource claim they vetted unspeakably graphic videos in harsh conditions

Mental Health, Social Media, Kenya, Labor Practices, Outsourcing

6 points by philk10 105 days ago | 1 comments

Yahoo cybersecurity team sees layoffs, outsourcing of 'red team,' under new CTO (techcrunch.com)
Yahoo laid off around 25% of its cybersecurity team — known as The Paranoids — over the last year, TechCrunch has learned.

Cybersecurity, Layoffs, Yahoo, Outsourcing, Tech

6 points by cannibalXxx 109 days ago | 1 comments

Uber's Gig Workers Now Include Coders for Hire on AI Projects (bloomberg.com)
Uber Technologies Inc.’s gig-economy workforce now includes programmers. The company is expanding beyond its rideshare roots to enter a hot new market: helping other businesses outsource some of their artificial intelligence development to independent contractors.

Uber, Gig Economy, Artificial Intelligence, Outsourcing, Software Development

6 points by rbanffy 124 days ago | 1 comments

As IBM pushes for automation, its AI simply not up to the job of replacing staff (theregister.com)
IBM's plan to replace thousands of roles with AI presently looks more like outsourcing jobs to India, at the expense of organizational competency.

Artificial Intelligence, Business, Technology, Automation, Outsourcing

63 points by Brajeshwar 190 days ago | 79 comments

Ask HN: Why hasn't there been more outsourcing of tech jobs to Japan? (ycombinator.com)

Outsourcing, Japan, Technology, Employment, Software Development

17 points by jarsin 216 days ago | 45 comments

Boeing and the perils of outsourcing mission-critical work (computerworld.com)

Outsourcing, Aerospace, Boeing, Business, Software

12 points by rntn 270 days ago | 0 comments

The Time I Convinced the CTO Not to Outsource Our Developers (GrumpyOldDev.com)

Outsourcing, Software Development, Management, Leadership

26 points by mundanerality 320 days ago | 26 comments

Google's new US layoffs are to replace core jobs in Mexico and India (androidpolice.com)