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Accenture To Create 15,000 Jobs In US (reuters.com)
Accenture said on Friday it would create 15,000 "highly skilled" new jobs in the United States, as IT services firms brace for a more protectionist U.S. technology visa program under President Donald Trump. From a report on Reuters: The company, which is domiciled in Dublin, Ireland, said the new jobs would increase the company's U.S. workforce by 30 percent to more than 65,000 by the end of 2020. Accenture has more than 394,000 employees, of which about 140,000 are in India. IT services companies have come under the spotlight after Trump said that his administration would focus on creating more jobs for U.S. workers, who had been affected by the outsourcing of jobs abroad. Major IT service companies, particularly those based in India, fly engineers to the United States using H-1B visas to service clients, but some opponents argue they are misusing the visa program to replace U.S. jobs.
The purpose of "consulting" isn't to "consult" but to give C-level executives cover should their big ideas/plans fail and trigger a raft of shareholder lawsuits. Consultants keep the CEO off the witness stand. As with most things in business it's all about covering your own personal rear end.
Especially when our largest trading partners employ the strongest types of protectionism.
For example, besides the draconian and taciturn restrictions on foreign goods sold there in the PRC you cannot start up a branch or company, you must take on a Chinese partner and if the venture is large enough you must havea CPC member on your board.
In India the only any a foreign national can work legally is if they are transferred within a branch of an existing corporation.
Both India and the PRC are full of pirates with most using stolen software.
I work for a gov't department that hired them for a project. I think in the end they did an ok job, however they had to be watched and vetted to make sure they weren't milking us. For example, bringing in resources to work on COTS software, but then we find out those resources don't have the necessary experience and they are essentially training them on our dime. Also requiring man power at specific cost tiers but filling the roles with people who didn't qualify for those tiers.
If you care about what's going on beyond your borders, why would you support so-called "free trade"?
Agreements like GATT, NAFTA and the WTO treaty simply give corporations a way to avoid all of the health, safety, labor and environmental protections that apply in the USA while maintaining their access to USA markets.
When you're importing those cheap foreign-made goods, you're exporting pollution and sweat shops. Some "protectionism" (a disparaging globalist term for a sensible policy) to prevent corporations from cutting costs through regulatory arbitrage would be a good thing for America and the world.
This.
I am a consultant. Most of the times, in the preparation to the audit you already know that all they really want is a CYA paper. They don't want to know about their security situation, they don't want to know how to remedy whatever security issues they may have, what they want is a document they can wave at whoever when the shit hits the fan to show that they had a security audit.
And believe it or not, that is actually already enough. Yes. You needn't be secure. All you have to do for your get-out-of-jail-card is to document your security issues.
Yes. You heard me. Knowing that you have a glaring security hole and not doing anything about it is ok. Not knowing that it's there isn't. Don't ask me why, I don't make the laws, I only abuse them.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.