Can anxious IT organizations be productive? CIOInsight has an article and some research on the anxiety-inducing possibility that employee jobs will be outsourced. It concludes, not surprisingly, that low morale has a cost in productivity and loyalty.
The primary findings:
- Spending on outsourcing is picking up at large companies
- Offshoring is growing in popularity, but satisfaction with offshore firms lags behind domestic outsourcers.
- Employees' fears of losing their jobs to outsourcing is a growing problem.
The good news for IT employees is that roughly three quarters of the surveyed executives do not believe that outsourcing as a cost cutting strategy is a good idea.
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