{"id":4703,"date":"2009-04-01T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/horses-exclusive-obama-to-ban-offshore-outsourcing\/"},"modified":"2009-04-01T00:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T00:04:00","slug":"horses-exclusive-obama-to-ban-offshore-outsourcing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/horses-exclusive-obama-to-ban-offshore-outsourcing\/","title":{"rendered":"Horses Exclusive:  Obama to ban offshore outsourcing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 150px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.divetheazores.com\/StopPress1.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>Folks &#8211; I can exclusively reveal\u00a0 &#8211; and you heard it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span> first &#8211; that President Obama will shortly be announcing a blanket ban on the offshoring of US jobs.\u00a0 My government insider tells me that he will take the following measures:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Any employer seeking to replace US staff with an overseas employee will have to prove\u00a0it\u00a0was unable to source a US employee for the role for a period of 90 days, where the position was widely advertised on national media;<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8356fb76c69e201156ea01948970c \" style=\"float: right; margin: 3px;\" title=\"Obama\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/images\/6a00d8356fb76c69e201156ea01948970c-800wi.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Obama\" \/>A task-force of leading US-headquartered outsourcing service providers, including\u00a0IBM, ACS, CSC and HP, will be tasked with assisting US firms with their backsourcing initiatives, their fees being footed by a proposed budget ammendment that is likely to\u00a0total as much as $50 billion;<\/li>\n<li>Leading outsourcing service providers which are not US-headquartered, and have more than 50% of their employees based outside of the US, will\u00a0have their US trading licenses revoked and will have 30 days to wind down their US operations;<\/li>\n<li>All jobs that have moved offshore within the last 8 years, that are currently being performed for any US-domiciled organization,\u00a0are to be replicated back to\u00a0a US location within the next six months.\u00a0 The US government will\u00a0reimburse\u00a020% of the reinstated onshore employee&#8217;s salary\u00a0to their employer upon completion of their first year of employment;<\/li>\n<li>CEOs who\u00a0fail comply with the ruling will face\u00a0a disciplinary\u00a0panel headed by Lou Dobbs.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So the battle is on between the USA&#8217;s onshore locations.\u00a0 Who will win out?\u00a0 Albuquerque, Detroit, Nashville, Jacksonville, El Pazo?\u00a0 Love to hear your thoughts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fersht.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8356fb76c69e201156eb95c97970c-pi.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3193\" title=\"april fool!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/april-fool.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"357\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You&#8217;re good sports!\u00a0 And my sincere apologies to the service provider which called an emergency meeting with the CEO and executive team\u00a0this morning as an result.\u00a0 You will never live that one down&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In all seriousness, while this was intended as April 1st humor,\u00a0the fact that so many\u00a0people fell for this\u00a0does get you thinking about how close to reality this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/2009\/03\/global-business-on-a-knifeedge.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wave of protectionism<\/a>\u00a0could get.\u00a0 C&#8217;mon &#8211; I thought the Lou Dobbs reference would be the big give away \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folks &#8211; I can exclusively reveal\u00a0 &#8211; and you heard it here first &#8211; that President Obama will shortly be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,81],"tags":[],"organization":[],"ppma_author":[19],"class_list":["post-4703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-process-outsourcing-bpo","category-it-outsourcing-it-services"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - 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