I used to do this (offshoring) for one of the big tech companies. The general premise of that quote is true in my experience doing that. Large orgs were constantly coming through the funnel and we were sending the bulk of their IT operations to India, Malaysia, Costa Rica, etc. Whether the numbers are precise or not I don't know.
What I can tell you is that there will always be jobs here and in other western countries for people who oversee IT ops, folks who do escalation support (e.g. end of the line problem resolution), folks who do design work, etc. This stuff will never successfully go offshore. If you're sitting at a keyboard all day just clicking away instead of automating that task, or being a ticket jockey, or something like that, I'd be worried. Otherwise IMO you'll be fine. Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 12:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Obsolete TechS Not good news for us ... ------- Included Stuff Follows ------- Flashpoint! > Blog Archive > STUDY SHOWS JOBS RAPIDLY MOVING OFFSHORE Large firms have wasted no time reacting to the economic policies of Barack Obama. According to a Miami-based consulting firm, The Hackett Group, as many as a quarter of the IT jobs at the 1000 most major firms may be moved offshore by the end of next year. They expect about 350,000 such jobs to be moved. Chief research officer Michel Jenssen added that the data is a confirmation of a "mega-trend" and by the end of 2010 as many as 80% of IT jobs may go overseas. The typical company is realizing about $16 million each years in savings from offshoring. "If you are sourcing all of your labor from high-cost countries, you are not going to be in business [long]," he said. Some Americans may call offshoring businesses unpatriotic. But remaining under adverse economic conditions until they go bankrupt doesn't seem particularly patriotic either. To the extent businesses do what they must to survive, they are doing their best for the country under adverse circumstances. --------- Included Stuff Ends --------- Seen here, no links to original study unfortunately: http://www.waxmanmedia.com/2009/08/17/study-shows-jobs-rapidly-moving-offshore/ -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-895-3270 ~! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
