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I've heard of this. Apparently it has Hannity's shorts in a twist, a local talk show guy was up in arms about it, and I still think that it's about the stupidist idea I've ever come across. These people will be competing with IT resources in India and Europe, they are taking on the additional expense of providing room and board for their IT staff, and for what? What is the benefit supposed to be?

I'm an IT project manager. I've managed projects for a couple of companies where the software developers were based overseas. I'm currently working on a outsourcing for a large retail company located in another state. I manage 4 projects made up of people located in all four time zones as well as resourced located in India, and I do not see the benefit of this scheme. It's a virtual world in IT, thanks to instant communications. I telecommute. My people in India are available when I need them, we communicate easily through email and using Lotus Note's Sametime online chat. I communicate with my U.S. staff almost exclusively through conference calls, email, and online chat. If my overseas resources were located 50 miles off the California coast that wouldn't make my job any easier. It wouldn't make it harder. It wouldn't change it at all. This sounds like the kind of idea that came out of an all night MBA school drinking session.