Plenty of Kansas Citians are up in arms over a recent announcement that The Kansas City Star is outsourcing all of the jobs of those who are in the advertising services department - in fact, their entire digital advertising team, according to one blog - to India. The jobs are being outsourced to Infosys Technologies in Bangalore, India. The employees were notified by memo, and the following day The Kansas City Star included a brief in the paper in the business section. The news reported that nine employees were laid off, however in fact there were several more in total. One of the released employees is a very old friend of mine who had been with the company for a number of years.
Now, as if this weren't enough of a blow, the kicker is this: the employees will retain their employment until after their replacements - who are being flown in, and put up here in Kansas City - have been trained by the displaced employees. And furthermore, according to a blog comment from the best friend of one of those laid off, The Kansas City Star is not giving letters of recommendation to those being let go! Talk about serious insult to injury.
The news has certainly spread, and naturally several local bloggers, such as Tony's Kansas City, and The Pitch, have caught wind of the news and have blogged and expressed opinions in the matter. However, there have also been attention from national bloggers, too, such as Gawker.com, who pointed out that McClatchy, owner of The Kansas City Star has taken the same action with other holdings, such as Miami Herald, the Sacramento Bee, and the Raleigh News & Observer.
The bloggers raised good questions. Tony's Kansas City asked, "So, how will a Kansas City advertisers really capture the attention, hearts and minds of the local market?" And in the comments section of that article, one concerned reader brought up the lost earnings tax revenue to the city of Kansas City. Another mentioned the tax cut The Kansas City Star would receive for outsourcing the jobs.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/770641/kansas_citians_are_angry_the_kansas.html
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3 comments:
Now I understand American businesses outsourcing but why can't outsource jobs come to the United States. Look can somebody explain it to me? Why can't companies be charged higher taxes for taking away US jobs. We live in a Global world why aren't we doing as other countries are.
Jackie--Taxing companies that outsource jobs is the best idea I've heard in thirty years, maybe the best one since President Carter put on a sweater and turned down the heat at the White House.
Many other countries are doing it, they also have high taxes on imports so as to discourage buying them.
Yes, now China and India are doing well, they have more people who now have more money than ever before and their citizens have more spending power, now they are putting McDonalds and other convient stores in, now people can afford cars and to put gas in them. Yes they say the gas prices are largly in part to supply issues because China and India are now using gas.........it's only part of the big picture. The gas station owners, sadly many are out of business or on their way there, are not making the money as the gas goes up, they are just barely hanging in there, if people don't come inside for a pop or get a car wash they are barely making their rent, utilities, payroll etc.
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