As far as we know, though, Noel never had to drudge from nine to five in an office processing the timesheets of care-workers.
It was 1979, and big insurers and banks were using technology mostly in the back office, processing claims and policy records, but not in the front office, where the product was being sold.
The Fishkill flea market took over on weekends, and a graphic design firm and a couple of banks and a post-office processing center converted vacant mall stores into offices.
After the service, I sat in my office processing the day.
Many states either furloughed the state employees who would administer such programs or instituted hiring freezes that prevented state offices from processing additional work -- even though the federal government would have paid the additional salaries, the report found.
Last month, IndyMac eliminated 400 back-office processing jobs, about 4percentt of the work force.
It has a back-office processing centre in Bangalore, and a call-centre in Mumbai.
The exchange, for example, currently outsources its clearing operations, which include the back-office processing of trades, to LCH.Clearnet.
Peter Barge, the chief executive Jones Lang LaSalle AsaidPacific, said his company was involved in 25 projects in India, most of it for back-office processing rather than high-technology functions.
Since then, the business has grown rapidly and has broadened its service offering across enforcement, bus and coach operations, debt recovery and back office processing".
