Hip Outsourcing Exec
Weekly roundup of outsourcing, S&M (sales & marketing), culture, and curator rants for HOEs and other blokes with no interest in proving themselves.
31 Oct — 06 Nov 2014
Outsourcing
Old-school IT labor arbitrage — body shopping and the ugly side of its practice of bonding — is the subject of this highly detailed investigative report on apparent techsploitation.
Labor brokers providing Indian high-tech workers to American companies have hijacked a professional visa program…www.theguardian.com
Marketing
Master content marketer Doug Kessler schools the fanboy in me again in this interview where he names some of his favorite content pieces and talks about insane honesty in marketing.
Here, Doug talks about the content marketing backlash, the importance of quality, and the importance of tone of voice.…econsultancy.com
Philosophy of work
Another look at the dysfunctional job system from the perspective not of burnouts but of slackers.
Two years ago a civil servant in the German town of Menden wrote a farewell message to his colleagues on the day of his…www.theatlantic.com
From the curator
Your business development is not a casual hookup or a sub/dom affair, so stop acting like a Craigslist creep.
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