Datenschutz und Informationssicherheit: Herausforderungen für die mittelständische Wirtschaft

Die moderne Geschäftswelt steht vor einem stetig wachsenden Strom an Daten und Informationen. Während der technologische Fortschritt viele Chancen und Möglichkeiten für Unter

https://www.mittelstand-nachrichten.de/verschiedenes/datenschutz-und-informationssicherheit-herausforderungen-fuer-die-mittelstaendische-wirtschaft/

#CloudLsungen #Datenschutz #MittelstndischeWirtschaft #Outsourcing

West Virginia University will drop language teaching even though 2,700 students are taking language classes. #111Words #WestVirginiaUniversity #LanguageTeaching #Outsourcing https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/08/west-virginia-university-will-drop.html

Just got this via #linkedIn
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I have some experience with #outsourcing, but never been in the position to place people. This seems so... Direct? Suprisingly open?
Is this a veiled threat? The new reality? Unavoidable future?

It's a first for me at least. Strange times...

What would you do?

𝗜𝗧 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗳𝗳 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘃𝘀. 𝗢𝘂𝘁𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 - 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲! 🔍

Is your business facing the age-old dilemma of IT staff augmentation vs. outsourcing? 🤔💼 It's time to unravel the mystery and discover the perfect fit for your unique needs!

𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲! 👉 https://thecompetenza.com/it-staff-augmentation-vs-outsourcing/

#ITStaffAugmentation #Outsourcing #BusinessDecisions #ITExperts #TechTalent #BusinessGrowth #DigitalTransformation #ITStrategy #DecisionMaking #ITConsulting #BusinessInsights

Yet more evidence, as if it were needed that the #neoliberalism experiment has been disastrous failure: Rise in outsourced #UK government services failing to meet #standards | #Outsourcing | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/04/rise-in-outsourced-uk-government-services-failing-to-meet-standards

Its a rare moment when the small-state #taxPayersAlliance & the #LabourParty are singing from the same hymn sheet, but on the #outsourcing of Govt. services, both agree the outsourced contracts have produced dire results & provided inadequate services....

of course the TPA & Labour are coming at it from different angles, but we can safely say that anyone who thought outsourcing was the answer to an ineffective state has some questions to answer!

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/04/rise-in-outsourced-uk-government-services-failing-to-meet-standards

Are we #outsourcing #sexualharassment?
https://restofworld.org/2023/exporter-bpo-sexual-harassment

Security Guards protest against UCL fire-and-rehire scheme 
Under the proposed restructure, workers - belonging to a 99% black and brown workforce - will be forced to reapply for jobs with lower salaries or face redundancies.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/07/20/security-guards-protest-against-ucl-fire-and-rehire-scheme/
#FireAndRehire #outsourcing #Protest #UCL

#AI #GenerativeAI #Outsourcing #OffShoring #Automation: "Since the blockbuster launch of ChatGPT at the end of 2022, future-of-work pontificators, AI ethicists, and Silicon Valley developers have been fiercely debating how generative AI will impact the way we work. Some six months later, one global labor force is at the frontline of the generative AI revolution: offshore outsourced workers.

These include workers hired per commission or on a contractual basis, such as freelance copywriters, artists, and software developers, as well as more formal offshore workforces like customer service agents. As generative AI tools present a new model for cost cutting, pressure is quickly mounting for these outsourced workers to adapt or risk losing work.

Rest of World spoke to outsourced workers across different industries and regions, including call center operators in Manila, programmers in Lahore, and designers in Cairo. Many said they are already seeing generative AI change the demand for their work and the stability of their income. But while some brace for layoffs or diminishing commissions, others have embraced generative AI tools in an effort to keep ahead of the curve. If generative AI represents a tectonic shift in the way we work, offshore outsourced workers are at the fault lines."

https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-revolution-outsourced-workers/

@anamckellar @kaz24

Mid-1990s when I worked on the project & #outsourcing was just being normalised, but to me (not to the whole team who were less bothered), it was very clear there was divergence between the (relatively vanilla logic) and the actual political economic use to which it was (already) being put...

@anamckellar @kaz24

My first academic job was for a Business School research project on #outsourcing & while I thought the logic of contracting out to take advantage of other firms' core competencies actually made a lot of sense, the actual implementation was always about cost reduction, not the capture of efficiencies or expertise.... so in the end I concluded it was a mask for continuing attrition on labour.

UCL guards bring anti-cuts protest to the Provost
The 99% black and brown security workforce are the only ones in the university being targeted with the fire-and-rehire scheme
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/07/04/ucl-guards-bring-anti-cuts-protest-to-the-provost/
#BidvestNoonan #IndependentWorkersUnionOfGreatBritain #IWGB #outsourcing #UCL

#AI #Outsourcing #AIAnnotation: "The most troubling part of BPO arrangements is how quickly the work becomes invisible. It took dogged and sustained reporting to show that AI services were using annotation contractors at all. If one of those contractors notices an unexpected problem or an opportunity for improvement, there’s no plausible way to get that insight back to the client. They’re on a different continent, working for a different company, and the moment the arrangement becomes inconvenient, the client can scuttle the entire operation and bring in a replacement.

Once that side of the business comes to light, it’s hard not to notice the thousand-mile gap between the ones hyping the product and the ones doing the work to prop it up."

https://restofworld.org/2023/exporter-industry-behind-ai/

Another anti-labor, anti-worker move from #Amazon as the giant company announces it will use small businesses to help deliver packages in the US - “Hub Delivery theoretically helps Amazon not only trim costs, but minimize the labor disputes that might come with using its own workers for shipping.” #labor #outsourcing #unions https://www.engadget.com/amazon-will-use-small-businesses-to-help-deliver-packages-in-the-us-132503498.html

“The state has not been able to control its own functions. It outsourced the use of force, and more than this, it has allowed its own laws to be broken,” said Andrei Kolesnikov, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He added that this “is a conscious loss of the state’s monopoly on the use of force.” Prigozhin’s march on Moscow, he said, “is the collapse of the institutions of state.”
#Russia #outsourcing #Wagner #RussiaUkraineWar #RussiaCoup
https://journa.host/@fulelo/110604230803459550

Well, we've all learned a lesson today about the disadvantages of #outsourcing

DWP announces another NHS-based work programme
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2023/06/14/the-dwps-invasion-of-the-nhs-continues-gps-can-now-refer-disabled-people-for-voluntary-work-placements/

#Disability
#Disabled
#ChronicallySick
#ChronicallyIll
#DWP
#VoluntaryWork
#VoluntaryNotVoluntary
#EmploymentSupport
#IndividualPlacementAndSupportInPrimaryCare
#IPSPC
#Outsourcing
#NHS
#GPs
#NotJustClaimants
#DWPInNHS
#Privatisation
#USModelHealthcare
#MentalHealth
#MedicalRecords
#IPS
#WorkAsTreatmentForMHIssues
#ME
#ExcerciseTherapy
#CostCutting

NSW inquiry to review $1bn spending on consultants.
"A NSW parliamentary inquiry will examine how an operating model based on consultants left the public service ‘infantilised’"
“The ongoing use of consultants to externalise both core public policy provision and service delivery has benefited the few at the cost of all citizens in NSW.”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/14/nsw-inquiry-to-review-1bn-spending-on-consultants
#Consultants #Outsourcing #Governance #NSW

Morocco: Unauthorized brokers obstructing Schengen visas

https://www.dw.com/en/morocco-unauthorized-brokers-obstructing-schengen-visas/a-65646643?maca=en-dipa_news_mstdn-34613-xml-mrss

#Morocco #Schengenvisa #visa #touristvisa #outsourcing #bots

#UCP’s ‘#Alberta #Surgical Initiative’ Is an Expensive Flop: Report | The Tyee https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/05/16/UCP-Alberta-Surgical-Initiative-Expensive-Flop/ “There is a limited pool of specialized #healthcare professionals,” Longhurst explained. “#Outsourcing surgeries leads to competition between #public and #forprofit sectors for the same professionals.”