According to The Black Book of Outsourcing 2008 Green Report, among 4200 surveyed global outsourcing users, just twenty percent of outsourcing clients has seen any substance from the environmental change promises made by their offshore suppliers in the previous year.
Fatigued with budget and staffing cutbacks, 91 percent of outsourcing users expressed intense dissatisfaction and growing impatience with their offshore service providers which claimed they would help shoulder the financial and operational burdens of green technology yet done nothing.
Despite a focus shift caused by the financial crisis, 94 percent of American corporate leaders still consider eco-friendly computing as an important element in their technology strategy. After the challenges of budget management, 26 percent rated finding demonstrated green outsourcing partners as their top IT priority.
