Tech sector to move up to 10% of jobs offshore in 2004

[alfredo]

Looks like they hired the foreign workers to build up an offshore workforce.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/32038.html

One in ten jobs in US tech vendors and IT service providers will move offshore by the end of 2004. And one in 20 tech jobs in end-user enterprises will be shipped overseas to cheaper countries during that time, Gartner estimates.

The tech analyst firm is a strong advocate of offshore relocation, and it has a heap of advice for CIOs on how to organise the move properly. Companies who get the transition wrong could face organisational paralysis and loss of intellectual talent in critical areas that should have stayed at home. And let's not forget a lot of mightily pissed-off staff, while we're at it.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

1. Gephardt would stop this

The DLC candidates think it's a good idea. American corporations should be required to hire Americans, or else they get their charter revoked.

[alfredo]

2. Here in Kentucky

there may be one native born American working the cash register at fast food joints. The rest are foreign workers from Mexico and central America. Looks like service sector jobs aren't safe for American workers. I guess because of their status here, they cannot make wage demands for fear of losing their job and work permit.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

3. native born doesn't matter

An immigrant citizen gets *all* the same rights and privlidges of a natural born citizen, except that they cannot run for president - that's the only difference.

I think the problem is high paying, middle class jobs being sent overseas - including union blue collar work. This will erode the middle class in the US and decrease the living standards for everyone.

Exactly what "cheap labor conservatives" want - and a whole lot of Democrats it seems.

[whoYaCallinAlib]

5. Don't take this the wrong way, but I don't hear Gephardt

saying that.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

7. Gephardt is closer to my view

than any of the other candidates on jobs issues. Kucinich has probably said this, but Gephardt, being "responsible" won't.

That being said, Gephardt has come out in favor of an international living wage - that would be a good start right there.

[whoYaCallinAlib]

8. Okay, THAT I'll buy. A international living wage is a great idea.

But taking away a company's business license for hiring a foreign worker is probably never going to happen . . . no matter who is president.

[leftyandproud]

4. this sucks...sucks sucks sucks..

just as I'm graduating!!!!!!

[jagguy]

6. the sickening thing about this mess

is this "loss of intellectual talent in critical areas".

These idiots are too stupid to understand what this means. Very scary.