ROFL! On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Doug Hampshire <[email protected]>wrote:
> In other news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead. > > 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/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
