[lit-ideas] Re: Globalization

  • From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 20:36:44 -0800

REPORT SAYS OUTSOURCING FEARS EXAGGERATED

A new report from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) argues
that fears of a wholesale migration of high-tech jobs away from the
United States are not supported by the data so far. Representing a
year's work by a study group, the report predicts continued offshoring
of 2 to 3 percent of IT jobs each year for the next decade, but it
notes that the number of high-tech jobs continues to grow and already
exceeds the number at the height of the dot-com boom. Although the
report acknowledges losses to lower-wage markets and notes that the
marketplace for technology is tightening, "the notion that information
technology jobs are disappearing is just nonsense," according to Moshe
Vardi, computer scientist at Rice University and cochair of the study
group. David Patterson, president of the ACM and computer science
professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said that
exaggerated fears of outsourcing have hurt the U.S. market by
discouraging college students from pursuing careers in IT, which, in
turn, will lead to fewer qualified members of the U.S. IT workforce.

New York Times, 23 February 2006 (registration req'd)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/23/technology/23outsource.html

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Robert Paul
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