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Lowell Top in New Report on Future Job Loss

13 Responses to “Lowell Top in New Report on Future Job Loss”

1. Mimi Says:
   February 14th, 2007 at 5:51 pm

   The report makes a number of recommendation including, “A metropolitan area’s ability to develop new technologies, products, or services, or to make creative use of of those developed elsewhere, is what will afford it the best protection against offshoring. For example, if the information technology centers that this report has identified as most vulnerable to offshoring (e.g., San Jose, CA and Lowell, MA) are able to remain at the technological cutting edge, then offshoring will be less of a problem for them. So we have been challenged.

   By the way, the U.S. Census, Lowell MA-NH Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area includes the following cities and towns: Billerica, Chelmsford, Dracut, Dunstable, Groton, Pepperell, Tewksbury, Tyngsborough, Westford and of course, Lowell.

2. waittilnextyr Says:
   February 14th, 2007 at 7:40 pm

   Let’s assume that the nanotechnology capability being developed by UML pays off. What is UML and the city of Lowell doing to protect that investment. The worst thing that could happen is that corporations pillage the intellectual capital and tax free resources provided by UML/Lowell and make killings in far off places. The use of any unique capabilities developed by UML with the help of the city should have a concrete payoff in terms of jobs and/or royalties.

   As for the bigger issue of off-shoring jobs, it is not protectionism to require at least a level play field. Our tax laws do just the opposite. A product developed/manufactured in the USA has built in costs of all the personal taxes of the employees, whereas imported products have essentially no contribution to the federal treasury. And the same unbalance applies to healthcare costs. If the politicians were serious about supporting the US worker, the playing field in both of these areas would be leveled immediately.

3. Renee Says:
   February 14th, 2007 at 9:02 pm

   It is cheaper for my husband’s company to fly him over to China every two weeks to manage the project, make it over there, and then ship it accross the Pacific ocean; then to have manufacturing in the Lowell area. Last Sunday we were watching an episode of PBS’s Globe Trekker in Hong Kong and my four year old said she wanted to go there, in sad truth one day we could be living in Hong Kong. All of China’s manufacturing is right outside the city. It is more then developing new technology, we have have the knowledge it is making costs cheaper to actually make it here.

4. Shawn Says:
   February 15th, 2007 at 8:51 am

   You can’t outsource cashering at Wal-Mart; but you can outsource your help desk, computer programming, and financial analyists.

   Ah, but we are outsourcing our cashiering.
   How many stores do you now see with “self-help” cashier stations. One employee oversees 4-6 automated stations.
   The software and hardware to build these stations can be (and probably will be) outsourced, while more of the base startup jobs are eliminated.
   On the other hand, when it comes to government jobs, you see the opposite.
   I went to a parking garage in Lowell last week. There were four employees all hovering around an office where you were supposed to go to use one automated payment machine.
   This, after I had spent 10 minutes driving around in circles looking for where you were supposed to pay.
   Why would you put the payment machine on the second floor when the exits are on the first? And why not just put the four people hanging around back into the booths?

   Hey, I’ve got a cold.. i’m just bi**chin today.

   And why did you let that off-subject Bush rant remain up above?

5. Mr. Lynne Says:
   February 15th, 2007 at 12:23 pm

   Lynne’s been busy lately. I’m sure she will get to the cleaning up of the comments. She’s also neck deep in the upcoming blog upgrade.

6. Shawn Says:
   February 15th, 2007 at 12:30 pm

   Oh.. I’m sorry.
   That was just a spam that got through. I should have seen that (like the “free traffic” one above).
   I hate it when I’m sick.

7. Lynne Says:
   February 15th, 2007 at 2:14 pm

   All set…weird that they hit a new post - spammers usually go for really old ones. Thinking you won’t notice.

   I have Akismet installed for Wordpress (if you run WP, you have to have Akismet!) but it doesn’t catch everything, especially if it’s new spam not yet picked up in the central database.

   Yeah, I’ve been trying to set up a new blog. I’m not even on beta yet. It’s one step forward, two steps back…this plugin won’t work with 2.1…wait…someone’s updated it…great…oops, it doesn’t like PHP5. Gah! But it’ll all work out in the end. I’m sticking to WP, so far, I’m partway where I want to be, which is progress.

8. Shawn Says:
   February 16th, 2007 at 8:14 am

   Let me know if you need any help.

   I got 2.1 up and working now. Still some problems with the WP- Gallery2 plugin that I may have to go in and fix myself cuz the author doesn’t seem to be getting anywhere (I hate that tinymce code..)

   I love Akismet, but have to keep a watch on it cuz it keeps filtering out some good comments as well (I think it has to do with number of links in the post).

   Im lucky in that my host gives you the option between php4 or 5. I stuck with the stability of 4 for now.

9. Jim Says:
   February 16th, 2007 at 8:26 am

   Well, Motorola did temporarily move all those jobs to CrossPoint before they send them off to Bangalore.

10. Lynne Says:
    February 16th, 2007 at 12:13 pm

    You can change the moderation catch-all in WP for # of links in post, it doesn’t have to do with WP, I don’t think. If it’s going in your moderation queue, it’s because of the options set in WP core administration.

11. Lynne Says:
    February 16th, 2007 at 2:29 pm

    Er, “doesn’t have to do with WP” is supposed to say “doesn’t have to do with Akismet”.

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