The force, which covers the third-largest policing area in the country, has already saved money by outsourcing staff to G4S, restructuring itself, reducing officer numbers by 120 and collaborating more with other forces.
They're all broadly centred around the privatisation of education, outsourcing staff and overpriced student accommodation, which – say the protesters – all equate to a heist of higher education, with profits being dropped directly into the greasy palms of private contractors.
U.S. firms EDS, Accenture, Keane and Convergys are doubling (or tripling) their outsourcing staffs in India in the next few years.
That resulted in a series of cost-cutting and efficiency-based decisions that could only be made once, such as outsourcing IT staffing or applications development, adding commodity blade servers to reduce up-front hardware and real estate costs, increasingly the virtualization of servers and outsourcing applications, either through clouds or software-as-a-service.
But it also would have imposed stricter limits on outsourcing companies staffed largely by foreign workers, such as India-based Tata Consultancy ServInfosysd Infosys, which provide outsourcing services to SoCal Edison.
India is outsourcing outsourcing.
One major outsourcing firm with staff in the Philippines was aware of the risks of this type of work and hired a local psychologist to assess how it was affecting its 500 content moderators.
Wipro, India's third-biggest software firm, revealed a soft underbelly to the outsourcing business: high staff turnover.
Therefore all decisions regarding hiring, firing, salaries, benefits, outsourcing, and even staff morale, counseling and support are measured by this criterion.
Specific strategies such as use of flexible part-time staff, outsourcing recruitment calls to a call center, passive PCP approval, and a willingness to meet the needs of individual participants in a variety of ways (taxi vouchers, evening and weekend appointments, allowing children at appointments, offering home visits) were most effective in achieving strong recruitment and retention numbers.
The firm's Human Resources business handles employment services including recruitment, staffing, outsourcing, and HR and organization development.
