Bunk. No links to the study. Keywords used to spread FUD: may, expect, data is a mega-trend (when no data is presented or cited). 80% of IT jobs may go overseases by the end of 2010. I mean really, let's project that out and apply that metric to this list. In 1.3 years, 80% of the people on this list will be gone (appologies to the international list members). Chicken little called, he wants to sue you for copyright infringement.
Angus, not directing this to you, per se, but really to the esteemed Lionel Waxman. On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming <[email protected]>wrote: > 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/> ~
