Two hundred workers will lose their jobs at Con-Way on Monday when the company contracts out administrative and information technology services.
Two hundred workers will lose their jobs at Con-Way on Monday when the company contracts out administrative and information technology services.
The administrative jobs will be contracted to WNS Inc., based in Mumbai, and the IT jobs will go to Hewlett Packard.
Con-way, the company that took over Consolidated Freightways, will eliminate about a fourth of its work force at its Northwest Portland campus, leaving about 600 employees. The trucking operations will remain.
India has become the world’s back office, where companies have set up call centers and IT outlets to cut costs.
But it’s difficult to say how many jobs have been moved overseas, because companies are not required to keep statistics. But Boston-based consultancy Forrester estimates that 400,000 service jobs have been lost to offshoring since 2000.
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