Wednesday, November 21, 2007

At least 17 percent of computer programming, software engineering and data entry jobs were likely to be offshored ...

Report: IT Service Jobs to Take Biggest Offshoring Hit | By Deborah Perelman | February 12, 2007 [eWeek]

Updated: Over the next seven years, service offshoring is expected to have a relatively small impact on the overall U.S., but a sharply felt one on IT-concentrated metropolitan regions, finds a new report.
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It was metropolitan areas with high concentrations of IT jobs, however, that were expected to be the hardest hit by service offshoring. Between 2005 and 2015, these IT-focused areas were expected to lose 2.6 percent of their jobs to offshoring, 2.4 percent in metropolitan areas that specialize in back-office services but only 1.9 percent of jobs in other metropolitan areas.

At least 17 percent of computer programming, software engineering and data entry jobs were likely to be offshored in these IT-concentrated metropolitan areas, including Bergen-Passaic and Newark in New Jersey; Boston; Boulder, Colo.; Danbury, Stamford and Hartford in Connecticut; Minneapolis; Orange County, San Francisco and San Jose in California and Wilmington, Del. ...

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