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The OA500 2026 Report — now live. Methodology, data, and the biggest shifts across the global outsourcing industry. Read it: outsourceaccelerator.com/oa5… #OA500 #OA500_2026 #BPO
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India became the world's back office through BPO in the 1990s, evolved into knowledge process outsourcing in the 2010s, and built a GCC ecosystem for multinationals in the decade after. A fourth category is now emerging: physical AI data services — the collection, annotation, and governance of real-world footage that trains the next generation of robots. #GoneGlobal #FutureOfWork #Outsourcing news.outsourceaccelerator.co…
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Infosys and the French Tennis Federation have extended their Roland-Garros technology partnership through 2031 with three new AI-powered fan experience tools built on the Infosys Topaz platform — including Rolly, an AI StatsBot; Rally, a humanoid robot with live predictions; and Momentum, a real-time match dynamics tracker. #InsideOutsourcing #Mergers #Acquisitions #Outsourcing news.outsourceaccelerator.co…
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A Mercer survey of nearly 12,000 executives, HR leaders, and employees worldwide found 99% of executives expect AI to reduce headcount in the next two years — while only 19% of HR leaders account for AI's emotional impact in their workforce plans. #GoneGlobal #FutureOfWork #Outsourcing news.outsourceaccelerator.co…
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Tech companies including Wix, Block, Snap, and Atlassian have all cited AI in announcing recent layoffs — but an MIT Sloan professor emeritus says executives have been citing technology to justify workforce reductions for 20 years. #GoneGlobal #FutureOfWork #Outsourcing news.outsourceaccelerator.co…
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Avaya and Avatarin announced a strategic partnership combining Avaya's Infinity CX platform with avatarin's One Intelligence platform to extend agentic AI customer experience into physical service environments. The integration uses Model Context Protocol (MCP) technology to preserve context as customers move between digital, physical, and human service interactions. #InsideOutsourcing #Mergers #Acquisitions #Outsourcing news.outsourceaccelerator.co…
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A working paper from Warwick's CAGE Research Center finds that generative AI's apparent effect on junior hiring collapses to near zero when work-from-home adoption is controlled — directly challenging research that attributed the entry-level hiring decline to AI. #GoneGlobal #FutureOfWork #Outsourcing news.outsourceaccelerator.co…
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Concentrix has achieved Platinum status in NICE's 360 Partner Program — deepening its collaboration with NICE on agentic AI deployment in regulated enterprise environments. The partnership combines NICE Cognigy's agentic AI platform with Concentrix's integration and data operations expertise to deliver AI agents that resolve customer issues end-to-end across voice and chat. #InsideOutsourcing #Mergers #Acquisitions #Outsourcing news.outsourceaccelerator.co…
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Work-from-home arrangements are a stronger driver of declining entry-level hiring than AI, according to a new study analyzing 243 million new hire records and 407 million job postings across the US, UK, Canada, and Australia from 2017 to 2025. #GoneGlobal #FutureOfWork #Outsourcing news.outsourceaccelerator.co…
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Patients are being hospitalized after telehealth providers prescribed compounded GLP-1 weight loss drugs at dosing errors of up to nine times the recommended starting amount, a KFF Health News investigation found. One patient was hospitalized within 24 hours of her first injection, prescribed at nearly nine times the typical starting dose. #GoneGlobalHealthcare #Healthcare #Outsourcing news.outsourceaccelerator.co…
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Box CEO Aaron Levie has a name for the pattern behind 2026's AI-driven layoffs: "AI psychosis" — a condition he says afflicts executives who see only AI's best-case demos while disconnected from the operational complexity of deploying it at scale. #GoneGlobal #FutureOfWork #Outsourcing news.outsourceaccelerator.co…
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TP (formerly Teleperformance) has expanded its TP.ai Data Services across eight Asia-Pacific markets — Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, China, Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam — deploying specialized AI practitioners in each market to deliver data collection, annotation, labeling, and model evaluation. #InsideOutsourcing #Mergers #Acquisitions #Outsourcing news.outsourceaccelerator.co…

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Zillow's job applications quadrupled after the company went remote-first under its "CloudHQ" model — a result CEO Jeremy Wacksman attributes to expanding the talent pool across all 50 states while major tech rivals enforce return-to-office mandates. #GoneGlobal #FutureOfWork #Outsourcing news.outsourceaccelerator.co…
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A practicing neurocritical care physician and neurosurgery professor argues the United States is misdiagnosing its physician shortage — and that AI tools targeting productivity miss the underlying problem entirely. Dr. Marc Ayoub says the framing of a physician shortage obscures the real issue. #GoneGlobalHealthcare #Healthcare #Outsourcing news.outsourceaccelerator.co…
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Eighty-one percent of US CEOs expect a fellow executive to lose their job over a failed AI strategy this year, according to a Dataiku and Harris Poll survey of 900 CEOs — with 72% also reporting board pressure to prove AI-driven ROI. #GoneGlobal #FutureOfWork #Outsourcing news.outsourceaccelerator.co…
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Ubase Group, South Korea's largest AI contact center company, has agreed to acquire Return Zero — a domestic voice AI startup with industry-leading speech-to-text and real-time processing capabilities. The deal gives Ubase full in-house ownership of every layer in its AICC delivery stack. news.outsourceaccelerator.co…
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Federal regulators finalized a rule cutting the arbitration fee for medical billing disputes from $115 to $15 — taking effect within days under the No Surprises Act. The Federal Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) Operations Final Rule sets the new $15 administrative fee per dispute, five days after publication in the Federal Register. #GoneGlobalHealthcare #Healthcare #Outsourcing news.outsourceaccelerator.co…
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