June 22, 2004
Offshoring Tech Jobs
A growing number of Americans are finding their tech jobs are being sent overseas, primarily to India.
From the Holland Sentinel:
"In the months leading up to his layoff, Cotterill was assigned to work alongside programmers from India who are taking over tasks formerly done by Americans, a process his company calls Knowledge Transfer, or KT.
"With the crash of the technology sector and overseas outsourcing, thousands of U.S. jobs are disappearing and salaries are under pressure.
"'It is unprecedented, the turn of fortune that has occurred in the high-tech industry,' said Marcus Courtney, president of the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers in Seattle. Read More
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