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Gartner Says 5 % of Corporte IT Jobs Could Go Offshore by 2005

Gartner Says 5% of Corporate IT Jobs Could Go Offshore by 2005

By Thomas Hoffman, Computerworld


Gartner Inc. last week predicted that between now and the end of next year, one out of every 20 corporate IT jobs that now exist in the U.S. will be moved offshore, along with 10% of the positions at U.S.-based IT vendors and technology services firms.

And through 2005, less than 40% of the IT workers whose jobs are shifted to offshore operations will be redeployed to other positions by their current employers, according to a report issued by Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner. The remainder will simply lose their jobs, Gartner indicated.

(More at ComputerWorld.)

More on offshoring

Here are some articles on international outsourcing:

www.outsourcing-offshore.com

www.outsourcing-canada.com

www.paypershop.com

www.wallstreetandtech.com

www.darwinmag.com

GOP to offshore...

NEW DELHI, India (PAI)--IBM... Microsoft... The Republican Party.
Welcome to the latest in the list of "companies" that export U.S.
white-collar jobs abroad.
That's because the GOP joined the group of firms exporting call center jobs
to India, according to the IBEW, which in turn flagged us to the Indian
paper, The Business Standard.
"The US Republican Party now has a band of young and enthusiastic
fund-raisers in Noida and Gurgaon," the paper reported from New Delhi. The
75 call center workers are trolling for cash for the party--and for George
W. Bush, it added.

US banks transfer analysts' work to India
By David Wells in New York and Khozem Merchant in Bombay
Financial Times
Full article

US investment banks are transferring work to India as they revamp equity research departments in response to the Wall Street analyst scandal and the bear market.
Banks including JP Morgan Chase and outsourcing companies such as Office Tiger say they are not replacing existing jobs but shifting tasks normally done by junior analysts such as number crunching to allow senior analysts the opportunity to publish reports and talk with clients.

More than 75,000 workers at telecommunications giant Verizon are fighting for a contract to protect their
jobs. The company has moved U.S. jobs overseas recently--bragging this spring to The Wall Street Journal about work it outsourced to India and last week trying to deny the boast to The Boston Globe. See
www.unionvoice.org/campaign/verizonjobs/iei7nkzq5bjt

News stories about offshoring

The popular Java Anonymous Proxy (JAP) has been back-doored by court order.

See http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/32450.html

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