China:

• Lured by a skilled work force and rock-bottom wages, IT customers are eyeing China's outsourcers longingly, with one major misgiving: the risk of losing intellectual property. To take advantage of the opportunity while still protecting sensitive data—customer records, proprietary business practices, patents, copyrights and trade secrets—some U.S. companies are taking a slow and careful approach to dealing with Chinese outsourcers. (eWeek)

Global:

• 33% of IT companies plan to increase outsourcing in 2006. 6% said they are planning to decrease it, according to Evans Data. 45% of respondents to the Evans survey said they outsource less than 25% of their development operations, with only 7% reporting that they farm out better than 50% of that sort of work. (ZDNet)
   

• RSS has been around for some time now, and savvy users have come to rely on their RSS "feeds" as a fundamental channel for keeping up with current events and discovering new information. But RSS is still somewhat confusing for many people, and with good reason—it's an emerging technology that's still going through massive growing pains, even as it changes the way we consume information. (SearchDay)

India:

• While the attrition rates in the Indian BPO industry are between a staggering 50 per cent and 60 per cent according to recent estimates, attrition in even the Indian software industry, too, has become a cause for concern. HR professionals say that a majority of call centre employees quit for want of adequate future prospects though a vast majority of those who quit actually stick it out in the industry and move up the salary ladder from one call centre to another. Attrition in the software industry is also higher than the average for the rest of Indian industry. Against the norm of five per cent attrition across the entire Indian industry, IT sector majors like Infosys, Satyam and Wipro have managed to bring attrition rates down to 10 to 15 per cent through a combination of various HR efforts in the past one year.  (DomainB)
   

• The Indian Enbassy in Doha has launched an investigation in what appears to be a massive recruitment racket involving manpower agencies at home and their suspected associates in the Gulf state. At least six recruiting firms in India are alleged to have collected over 1.5 crore rupees from 275 semi-skilled construction workers mostly from Kerala for jobs in Qatar. (NewKerala)

New Zealand:

• The recruitment of resident medical officers for Ashburton Hospital should begin now, the Ashburton District Health Committee says. Six or seven doctors will be needed to provide 24-hour-a-day coverage at the hospital, which is often under-utilised because house surgeons on rotation from Christchurch refuse to work here. The effort to recruit would reaffirm to present staff the board's commitment to the hospital, reduce staff attrition and improve morale, he said. "The recent lack of junior staff has also meant that many patients have been transferred rather than admitted and the resources of the hospital have been severely under-utilised." (AshburtonGuardian)

UK

• THE National Health Service in Scotland is being propped up by foreign doctors who now make up a quarter of junior medics, new figures reveal. Over the past five years, staff have been increasingly drafted in from overseas because of a shortage of home-grown graduates.  According to newly published NHS Scotland figures, the number of the most junior doctors who have qualified abroad has risen by 180 per cent in that time, and by 45 per cent among Senior House Officers.  (Scotsman)

USA:

• The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on August 12 that it has received enough H-1B petitions to meet the H-1B cap of 58,200 for Fiscal Year 2006 (beginning on October 1, 2005).  USCIS has determined that the "final receipt date" for H-1B visa petitions is August 10, 2005.  Any petitions received on that date will go through a random selection process.  USCIS will reject any petitions that are subject to the FY 2006 annual cap and received after August 10, 2005.

  The announcement came as a surprise, as USCIS had indicated earlier in the week that it still had approximately 7,000 FY 2006 H-1B numbers available.  This is the first time that the H-1B cap has been reached before the beginning of the fiscal year.  In the current fiscal year ending on September 30, 2005, the H-1B cap was reached on the very first day of the fiscal year, on October 1, 2004.  (BLR)

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