April 2, 2005

Research firm Gartner is predicting that 30% of IT jobs in developed countries will be offshored by 2015. Currently the number of offshored IT jobs in the United States and other developed countries stands at 5%. Helping drive the shift is the decreasing cost of data connectivity to the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China). Despite this, experts predict that automation will eliminate or displace more U.S. service jobs than offshoring. Another article at CRN about Wipro comfirms that interest in outsourcing is rising once again.

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