Whenever the topic of outsourcing comes up, an immediate debate usually ensues: Should you outsource or not? What are the pros and cons? What are things you just shouldn’t even consider outsourcing? The truth is, the debate will never be settled with a single answer. What’s right for one business

Company towns used to be a defining feature of the American economy. Nowadays, as Raul at HowMuch.net notes, thanks to globalization and offshoring, it is much harder to find employers that exert such influence over a small town (with a few notable exceptions). That being said, specific industries

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Author: Blaise Zerega / Source: VentureBeat For one CTO, offshoring software development seemed like a good idea. Six years ago, the CTO joined a fintech company that had a history of sending coding projects to India, China, Vietnam, and the Ukraine. Like so many U.S. corporations, this fintech

Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The rising asymmetry of rewards within our economy has many drivers. We all know the middle class that actually owns capital and wields political influence is shrinking. As I noted last week in Redefining the Middle Class: It Isn't What You