{"id":123,"date":"2005-10-03T02:51:24","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T09:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1090"},"modified":"2005-10-03T02:51:24","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T09:51:24","slug":"outsourcing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Outsourcing"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a recent flurry of activity and discussion on the CW site about Outsourcing<\/a>. (Actually, since we're now in October and this was August, maybe it's not that recent...).<\/p>\n

I've been fortunate enough never to have to experience outsourcing at the 'business' end. My clients are small companies who either do stuff in house, or use a third party (like me) rather than doing the sort of large scale outsourcing normally experienced in larger companies. Mergers, yes, but not outsourcing. I do of course come across all the time. Phoning up a bank or utility here in the UK and you are almost guaranteed to come across outsourced customer services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was a recent flurry of activity and discussion on the CW site about Outsourcing<\/a>. (Actually, since we’re now in October and this was August, maybe it’s not that recent…).<\/p>\n

I’ve been fortunate enough never to have to experience outsourcing at the ‘business’ end. My clients are small companies who either do stuff in house, or use a third party (like me) rather than doing the sort of large scale outsourcing normally experienced in larger companies. Mergers, yes, but not outsourcing. I do of course come across all the time. Phoning up a bank or utility here in the UK and you are almost guaranteed to come across outsourced customer services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}