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Article: Two-way street.(editor's page)
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- Florida Trend
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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Nearly three years ago FLORIDA TREND'S Barbara Miracle wrote an excellent story for the magazine that anticipated the recent surge of concern over the outsourcing of technical jobs to India, the Philippines and Ireland. Among other examples, her story pointed out how Precision Response Corp., a Florida-based call center operator, was hiring skilled workers in Ahmedabad, India, for 40% of what it cost the company to hire less-educated workers in the U.S.
Barbara also pointed out the inevitability of the trend, given the growing demand for technology workers, and also a program in Florida called the Critical Jobs Initiative that trains workers in tech skills that ...