[jsfg_cinti] ARTICLE: IT Service Jobs to Take Biggest Offshoring Hit

Dear JSFG Folks,

Here's an interesting article with information that
job seekers should take into consideration. 
Particularly if you are seeking a job in IT.

Regards,
Lance Feldman

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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2094185,00.asp

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

While the loss of service jobs to offshoring in the
near future will be modest, metropolitan areas with
large concentrations of IT and back-office jobs will
be harder hit, finds a report released Feb. 12 by the
Brookings Institution, a Washington-based independent
research group.

Noting that public fervor and coverage of offshoring
has noticeably died down since the 2004 elections,
U.S. companies continue to seek offshore solutions for
a range of jobs only expected to grow in the next
decade. Using occupational data, the study
investigated the implications in job losses of service
offshoring for 246 U.S. metropolitan economies between
2005 and 2015.

"Companies assume they can get the work done cheaper
or that it doesn't matter if the work is done onsite,
but they often find unexpected difficulties, such as
problems coordinating activities and security lapses.
But it doesn't seem to have abated the tide of
offshoring. Offshoring will continue for the
foreseeable future," Howard Wial, a senior research
associate in the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program
and a co-author of the report, told eWEEK.

...

"IT service jobs and back-office service jobs that use
IT are more likely to be hit. The three big at-risk
occupations that appeared over and over again were
computer programmers, software engineers and data
entry engineers. They can have job loss rates of 17 to
24 percent in some metropolitan areas," said Wial.

...

"The overall impact offshoring is fairly minor in
contrast to the number of jobs in the U.S. But when
you look at particular places like San Jose, Stamford,
Boulder, etc., and specific occupations such as those
in IT, these regions and fields are likely to take a
much more substantial hit," said Wial.

"We're not suggesting that offshoring is all good or
all bad. Some can be productive, but some is outright
harmful."

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