We Got Blood!
Every summer when Indian people take their vacations, a crisis arises. As you might know, India faces a terrible blood shortage—but this shortage worsens in the summer time. Regular blood donors take their vacation right when children come for surgeries in large numbers, creating a supply/demand gap which can cause lives to be lost. To […]
How your CFO can Contribute to Successful Outsourcing
Because technology is so integral to business, IT outsourcing is no longer the CIO’s challenge alone. When asked the right questions, in the right context and with the proper long-term vision, the CFO plays an amazingly valid and important role in policy and direction. However, if the recommendations or decisions are based on assumptions and […]
the Gypsy Village Meets ECHO (EC Group Health Outreach)
If you’ve been keeping up with our outreach news, you’ve seen that we’ve been doing a lot of activities with the Gypsy village not far outside of the city of Chennai. Our last visit was for our Christmas party celebration. We visited again last week, this time as part of the annual EC Group medical […]
Sticky Jobs: How to Retain Remote Employees
Outsourcing isn’t a word that generally fills people with warm fuzzies of company loyalty. In fact, it might be difficult to picture a team in India as more than just a far-off speck on a map. It might seem even more difficult to build a relationship with a staff in India, as the average outsourced […]
Clothing Donations
When you donate your unused clothes to a Goodwill or Salvation Army, where do you hope they go? Probably to someone who is in need. That’s what I hope for, at least. Then again, it’s so easy to drop off a bag of clothes at the donation center, and then go on with your day […]
Beach Day
Spring finally arrived in Michigan this week. Good thing, too, because we were all starting to get cabin fever. It didn’t help that everyone in the India office (where it’s nice and sunny 365 days a year) got to go on a family beach outing. (Some of us Michiganders considered a beach outing for ourselves, […]
Little Hearts Visit
This Monday our office had the day off to celebrate Republic Day–what a better time than to go visit the people at Little Hearts?! Approximately 6.5% of the Indian population has some form of serious mental disorder. These people are marginalized not just by society, but also their own families. Parents will often abandon their […]
News Digest – Hiring Again
It’s a common belief that the best strategy for employee retention is to pay your employees more than any other company would. However, according to this article out of CIO, this is not as much the case as it used to be. According to Computerworld’s 2014 IT Salary Survey, the softer factors of workplace life are playing […]
Tech Talent Grocery Games
So you’re shopping around for new IT talent. Did you remember to make a shopping list? Yes? Well take another look at it in a second. The last thing you want to do is make a bad hiring decision. Normally, hiring takes around 56 days, and a bad hire can cost you 30% of your […]
News Digest – What’s Up with Hiring?
Recently, CIO released a list of cities that are facing the largest shortages of tech pros in the country. As you may have guessed, New York City appears at the top of the list, followed by Silicon Valley giant San Francisco. While neither of these top two are surprising, the rest of the list is […]
