Kansas City Star to outsource all advertising jobs to India
May 20, 2008
Wow— a local paper sending all the jobs to India for their Advertising Services Department… so next time your agency calls in to place an ad for your client… you will be calling into Bangalore, India …
I guess no one in Kansas wants advertising jobs? they couldn’t find enough local talent? This is an outrage… sending all these jobs overseas… the Kansas City Star isn’t some huge multinational… it’s a local company owned by the McClatchy newspaper group. So just to make it clear… these people buy the local paper, put ads in the local paper and hand over locally earned money.. to support families in India rather than locally across the street…
Plenty of Kansas Citians are up in arms over a recent announcement that The Kansas City Star is outsourcing all of the jobs of those who are in the advertising services department - in fact, their entire digital advertising team, according to one blog - to India. The jobs are being outsourced to Infosys Technologies in Bangalore, India. The employees were notified by memo, and the following day The Kansas City Star included a brief in the paper in the business section. The news reported that nine employees were laid off, however in fact there were several more in total. One of the released employees is a very old friend of mine who had been with the company for a number of years.
Now, as if this weren’t enough of a blow, the kicker is this: the employees will retain their employment until after their replacements - who are being flown in, and put up here in Kansas City - have been trained by the displaced employees. And furthermore, according to a blog comment from the best friend of one of those laid off, The Kansas City Star is not giving letters of recommendation to those being let go! Talk about serious insult to injury.
The Kansas City Star should be ashamed of themselves.
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