Apartheid in the BPO Industry? + Other BPO Updates

A US Congressman filed a bill requiring foreign call center workers to disclose their location. Read the complete news this page:

"The congressman, a Democrat, has filed legislation called the Call Center Consumer's Right to Know Act that would require call center employees to state their physical location when called by consumers. supporters believe location disclosure would inform consumers that many of their calls have been redirected to foreign countries and will focus attention on the degree to which U.S. call center jobs have moved overseas."

Hmmn.. Does the congressman want to encourage the practice discrimination based on location, race and color? Isn't this bill leading to a new variant of Apartheid and Racial Profiling? Let's see what the American Civil Liberties Union have to say regarding this.

Andolini, an economist, will probably have a different take on this. Let's wait for his comments.

Cops Outsource the maintenance of their crime database. Click here.

"Police officers are entering crime incident reports, arrest records and other important data into the CrimeCog integrated criminal justice system using personal computers and a common Internet browser. The information is encrypted as it is sent to a secure data center, where it can be accessed by other authorized users, including other police departments."

In Jerusalem, large tourists arrivals are forcing hotel owners to do what others may think as "Unthinkable". Hotels are currently outsourcing rooms to competitors. I hope Asian hotels will have a way of transporting the tourists to their hotels for the evening and return them to the streets of Jerusalem in the morning. Hmmn.. "Beam me up, Scottie!" Read the news here

IF YOU BUILD IT, WILL THEY COME? -- Continued

What made me select the previous post for publication (in this blog) is my disbelief at the consultant's brazen attempt, whether intentionally or unintentionally, to increase her inventory (of properties to offer), at the investor's peril.

Some liars are difficult to spot. However, there are those who can be smelled from miles away.

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"A consultant's role is to present the best possible options to the clients. In the BPO industry, making property owners spend while awaiting possible locators is never an option. The money invested sleeps, the facilities become outdated therefore reducing the possibility of it being used. Furthermore, the equiments can burn to the ground or get stolen. There is no real guarantee that money will ever be recovered."
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First of all, her example is fallacious. Among the things that I didn't mention to her, is the fact that I was a part of that particular building's construction. Seven years ago, when the country was going through a period of economic difficulty, that infrastructure was built with the intention of making it an Information Technology (I.T.) hub. The building is supposed to house IT developers. For quite sometime after construction, the building had a low occupancy. It was only later, when the call cnter industry boomed, was the building fully occupied. I can hardly consider cantact centers as IT developement companies.

During our meeting, the "Consultant" also noted an operational call center (near my client's property) which was built without any client in mind. She added that they offered that facility to their long term client, only that, the decision was to locate elsewhere. Why did her client locate far from that facility? I know the reason. That particular building is far from the present popular call center locations. The company probably did not want to risk being the first to locate in that area and have a hard time recruiting employees. That is actually my main hesitation. My client's property hardly has a call center nearby. Though my assessment (based on experiences) showed that it is a good spot, I am not sure if the prospective locators sees it the way I do.

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"No consultant worth his salt, will ever lead anybody in a
road to perdition

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I didn't bother pinpointing the lies that I heard so that others will recognize her, as easily as I did. Had I told her, she would have modified her story before talking to the next potential client (victim?).

In my opinion, a consultant's role is to present the best possible options to the clients. In the BPO industry, making property owners spend while awaiting possible locators is never an option. The money invested sleeps, the facilities become outdated. thus reducing the possibility of it being used. Furthermore, it can possibly burn or get stolen. There is no real guarantee that money will ever be recovered.

That property consultant, in my opinion, was simply out to make money out of her retension fees. In so doing, she is also increasing her inventory of properties that can be offered to her clients. That is not the way to honestly live. If clients make money out of the options presented, the consultant's presence becomes indispensable. Otherwise, there is no reason why any investor should hire one. No consultant worth his salt, will ever lead anybody in a road to perdition.

Online BPO and Work at Home Opportunities

Browsing through the internet, several work at home ads can be found. A few require do not require a membership fee in order to gain access to (online jobs) but a big majority does. Some membership fees may be as low as US$5.00 but there are those that can go to as much as US$199.00 or even more.

Through the years, a lot of news articles claim that fraudulent advertisments are all over and that unsuspecting viewers have easily fallen victims of unscrupulous sites.

I created a new site that will publish vacancies that are personally known to the author/s to be in actual existence. The blog will also post advertisements found through the net but all of it will be accompanied with short notes/ reviews. The authors of this site will also browse through, but not limited to Google advertisements and will try conduct verifications and authenticate some ads.

Ads that are personally found to be truly reliable and those that were verified and authenticated by reliable sources, will be accompanied by this site's "Seal of Approval".

Check the site regularly and tell your friends about it.