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16:58 Feb 17, 2011
English to Portuguese translations [PRO] Bus/Financial - IT (Information Technology) Additional field(s): Business/Commerce (general), Human Resources
English term or phrase:body shopping
Definition from ProZWiki: The practice of using offshore resources and personnel to do small disaggregated tasks within a business environment without any broader intention to offshore an entire business function.
Example sentence(s):
End of body shopping boom in the name of Indian software. India Daily
Global "Body Shopping" explores how flexibility and uncertainty in the IT labor market are constructed and sustained through concrete human actions. Princeton University Press
During my career I had multiple discussions about the line between bodyshopping & consultancy. KVaes
Definition: Body shopping is the practice of consultancy firms recruiting information technology workers in order to contract their services out on short-term bases. Regarded as legitimate consultancy by both the companies that practice it and by the people employed, body shopping is disparaged by those IT services companies in India that assert that they provide real services (such as software development) rather than the "sham" of merely farming out professionals to overseas companies.
Definition from SmartSEC: "...proporciona a sua empresa a facilidade de ter um colaborador somente no momento da necessidade desta força de trabalho."
Example sentence(s):
"Body-shopping / Terceirização de profissionais de segurança da informação para projetos específicos de duração definida
proporciona a sua empresa a facilidade de ter um colaborador somente no momento da necessidade desta força de trabalho, reduzindo custos e encargos trabalhistas." - SmartSEC
"O banco possui dois riscos quando está terceirizado em body shopping: estar refém de um contrato que garante transferência de conhecimento e os riscos trabalhistas em todos os níveis. A confiança de passar tarefas para terceiros está longe de existir. Um dia, isto vai acontecer com algum case no Brasil, e os bancos iram atrás. Infelizmente, este case, em que, a operação inteira está com o provedor ainda não existe." - Portal Banco Hoje Interativo
"A Third IT Solutions, integrador da cidade de São Paulo, se especializou em terceirização de infra-estrutura, de aplicativos, de suporte a legado e de profissionais ( body shopping )." - Telemikro
Maria Fernanda Picanço Local time: 11:10 Native speaker of: Portuguese PRO pts in category: 4
Definition from Wikipedia: Body shopping is the practice of consultancy firms recruiting information technology workers in order to contract their services out on short-term bases. Regarded as legitimate consultancy by both the companies that practice it and by the people employed, body shopping is disparaged by those IT services companies in India that assert that they provide real services (such as software development) rather than the "sham" of merely farming out professionals to overseas companies.
Example sentence(s):
Já a divisão de Body Shop da Eccox surgiu como solução efetiva e competitiva para projetos pontuais e para a terceirização parcial ou total de TI. - http://www.eccox.com.br/www/imagens/pdf/
Ideal para todos os tipos de empresas, podendo optar por uma terceirização full, parcial ou unitária, na área de Tecnologia da Informação. Assim, suprindo qualquer necessidade de profissionais, sempre alinhando o perfil de cada profissional com o perfil da necessidade do cliente. Não realizando uma simples alocação de profissionais, mas garantindo alto nível de capacitação e profissionalismo dos profissionais que trabalham junto ao cliente. - Google
Marlene Curtis United States Local time: 10:10 Native speaker of: Portuguese PRO pts in category: 220
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