The Age of Insourcing: How Tech Helps Megacompanies Rope Us In http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

This past summer, General Motors announced an initiative to bring 90 percent of its information-technology positions back inside the company. The decision was newsworthy for its creation of US jobs at a time when the country's economic recovery remained anemic and unemployment sky-high. Even more notable was GM's plan to grow its own payroll instead of handing the work to subcontractors. In truth, though, the auto giant's latest move was following, not bucking, a trend: For all the focus on outsourcing, economic forces are actually pushing corporate giants to grow larger.



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