A wrinkle in the outsourcing trend: give laid-off workers the chance to relocate to new jobs in foreign countries, at local wages. From Information Week:

The climate is warm, there's no shortage of exotic food, and the cost of living is rock bottom. That's IBM (NYSE: IBM)'s pitch to the laid-off American workers it's offering to place in India. The catch: Wages in the country are pennies-on-the-dollar compared to U.S. salaries.