EXCLUSIVE: Laid-Off Best Buy Workers Sound Alarm Over India Outsourcing

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    "title": "EXCLUSIVE: Laid-Off Best Buy Workers Sound Alarm Over India Outsourcing - Dallas Express",
    "excerpt": "Two former Texas Best Buy employees told The Dallas Express that the company’s 2024 layoffs upended their families and left them facing long job searches, while raising new concerns about outsourcing American jobs overseas. Their accounts come as Best Buy moves its India technology center to Tata Consultancy Services, or TCS, under an agreement the companies announced October 1, 2026. Both former employees spoke exclusively with The Dallas Express and were granted anonymity. The first, identified in this article as Rachel, said she joined Best Buy in 2016 and later became a manager before working as a Care Specialist 3. She said the company eliminated her position in 2024. The second source said he worked as a Best Buy supervisor in 2024 before he was laid off that same year. Rachel confirmed the two had previously worked together at the company. A Best Buy manager called Rachel on her day off in 2024 without warning, she said. “As of now, your role is being eliminated,” she recalled the manager saying. “I kind of spaced out at that point,” she said. “Everything went silent.” The company gave Rachel until that Friday to find another Best Buy position before ending her employment, she said. She immediately began warning coworkers. One employee received his layoff call while sitting in a hospital with his dying mother, Rachel said. A Best Buy notification email listed April 5...",
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