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2-3% of US IT jobs to go offshore by 2016

ACM claims only 2-3% of US IT jobs will migrate offshore between 2006 and 2016. Currently only 1 in 75 US students would major in computer science, compared with 1 in 30 in 2000.

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Blog posts 2006-02-23

5% of IT jobs are offshored now, 20% will be offshored by 2015

Less than 5% of IT jobs in the United States and other developed countries are currently sent offshore, Gartner says. That number will rise to 30% by 2015. Worldwide spending on offshore research and development and engineering will increase by a whopping 860%, from $1.25 bln in 2004 to as...

Tags: IT job, IT Jobs, Offshore

Blog posts 2005-04-09

5% of IT jobs are offshored now, 20% will be offshored by 2015

Less than 5% of IT jobs in the United States and other developed countries are currently sent offshore, Gartner says. That number will rise to 30% by 2015. Worldwide spending on offshore research and development and engineering will increase by a whopping 860%, from $1.25 bln in 2004 to as...

Tags: IT job, IT Jobs, Offshore

Blog posts 2005-04-09

By 2010 15% of US IT jobs to migrate to India

AMR Research looks at the current IT functions required by US companies and says that over the next 6 years 15% of those jobs will migrate to India. Companies reinvest 60% of cost savings attributed to outsourcing in IT or business unit projects. By 2010, savings from offshore outsourcing will...

Tags: IT job, information technology, IT Jobs

Blog posts 2004-12-16

By 2010 15% of US IT jobs to migrate to India

AMR Research looks at the current IT functions required by US companies and says that over the next 6 years 15% of those jobs will migrate to India. Companies reinvest 60% of cost savings attributed to outsourcing in IT or business unit projects. By 2010, savings from offshore outsourcing will...

Tags: IT job, information technology, IT Jobs

Blog posts 2004-12-16

Canada loses IT jobs through offshore outsourcing, gains through US contracts

The report by PriceWaterhouseCoopers showed that Canada could lose up to 75,000 IT jobs by 2010 to offshore outsourcing, but Canada could also gain some 165,000 jobs through U.S. outsourcing contracts.

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Blog posts 2004-07-16

Additional Resources

Why tech jobs are beating the employment odds

Why tech jobs are beating the employment oddsCan somebody tell me whenan economist has ever called it right? Every piece of economic news includes the line "more than" or "less than" what economists predicted.Why do we even listen to these folks?I'd have just put it more brutally...US companies have wanted...

Tags: employment odd, tech job

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Why tech jobs are beating the employment odds

While tech jobs are in no way immune to the ups and downs of the rest of the economy, right now they're holding their own. Here are three reasons why. by Deb Perelman

Tags: Job, Worker, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Amid ugly job picture, tech related employment holds up

The U.S. economy lost 62,000 jobs in June for the sixth straight month of employment losses with an unemployment rate of 5.5 percent, but underneath the technology sector is holding up well, according to Labor Department statistics. What a difference a downturn makes. Last...

Tags: Job, Technology Sector, Industry, U.S. Department Of Labor, Recruitment & Selection, Data Centers, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Helpdesks and productivity

Helpdesks and productivityGood start, and then...You lost it.1980 CalledThey want their mainframes back. :DWhy don't you explain your present value...calculation. Do you even know what present value means? What time period are we talking?Huh?You imply that on a Sun Ray platform the only problems are the applications or how they...

Tags: Call centers, help desk, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, PC

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

News to know: Searching Silverlight; IE 8; Dell; Google vs. YouTube

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: Silverlight content searchable, too Ryan Stewart: Brian Goldfarb talks about Silverlight 2 and Deep Zoom with Michael Cot LineRider releases a Silverlight 2 version Microsoft steps up self-policing of its OSI-approved source licenses ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Mobile, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Linux, UNIX, Keyboards, Operating Systems, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Michael Dell's a believer: Makes a $100 million statement

Michael Dell's a believer: Makes a $100 million statementDoes that make him...?Just wondering if that makes him the majority shareholder now? Or could that be his goal, to make sure he retains control over Dell as a rule because he may be considering stepping aside as CEO to pursue something...

Tags: Mortgages, Dell Computer Corp., Michael Dell, believer

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Guest post: An ode to the humble spreadsheet

Guest blog: Bob Warfield has founded three startups, run R&D at Borland, developed software for Callidus and Oracle and created tools for Rational/Pure Atria. He currently works for SaaS customer service company Helpstream.  He is responsible for Quattro Pro, the Borland spreadsheet, and is the inventor of the notebook tabs...

Tags: Spreadsheet, Productivity, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-02

What is the best method for picking up an iPhone 3G on July 11th?

What is the best method for picking up an iPhone 3G on July 11th?Going EarlyI have a pretty decent sized AT&T Wireless store a quick walk down the street from my place. I'm guessing since it isn't in the busier parts of town it won't have a ton of traffic...

Tags: Cellular phones, WIRELESS, 3G, Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Now I know we're in a recession

Now I know we're in a recessionPricingYou can't sell coffee at those prices in a mainstrean coffee chain on a long term basis. Certainly not when it's either a coffe or a gallon of regular unleaded :-) A Sophie's choice indeed.Well, Starbucks in Vienna, Austria, EU, does (Starbucks is more...

Tags: Auto Industry, Starbucks Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gain

Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gainRE: Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gainbut what is the point of declaring that the acquisition of a tiny, unproven, high-experimental technology software company is going to beat or not beat Google? it's totally absurd.Q&A vs Semantic searchPowerset will drown inside of MSFT and just burn $.The...

Tags: Google Inc., Powerset, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Why computers fail

Why computers failA good UPS...will decrease failure rates tremendously. I use Belkin AVR UPS's and the only systems I've had go down in the last year were ones installed by my predecessor without UPS's. There is no doubt in my mind that bad power is a PC's worst enemy....

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Tools & Techniques, PRODUCTIVITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, chip, failure rate, hardware, software, United Parcel Service of America Inc., redundancy, computer

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

News to know: Apple patches; Adobe; XP-Vista; Yahoo

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Apple plugs 25 Mac OS X security vulnerabilities. David Morgenstern: Apple releases Leopard 10.5.4 update Apple update notice. Robin Harris: Why computers fail Adobe: Adobe Advances Rich Media Search on the Web ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Web, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Patch Management, Apple Inc., IBM Consulting Service, Web 2.0, 3G, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Open Source, Internet, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Why computers fail

Good failure data for PCs is hard to find: who knows how many times PC users are told to reinstall Windows? But in a recent paper, Bianca Schroeder and Garth Gibson of CMU found some surprising results in 10 years of large scale cluster system failures at Los Alamos National...

Tags: Checkpoint, Multiprocessor, Failure, Computer, Desktop Computer, LANL, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-07-01

My 15 minutes with Bill Gates, and how the Web was born

My 15 minutes with Bill Gates, and how the Web was born BG Saw It ComingIf Bill Gates saw the Internet & the World Wide Web coming well in advance of everyone, why was his company the very last to do anything about it?The real truth is that Bill Gates...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Digital media, Web, Bill Gates, software

Discussion threads 2008-06-30