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Not All I.T. Offshoring Is Equal
Being an introverted computer whiz ain't what it used to be. According to a study by Prasanna Tambe of New York University and Lorin Hitt of Wharton, IT workers like systems analysts who have more face time with other parts of the companies they work for are less likely to see their jobs get offshored than programmers or engineers.
...our findings, which suggest that workers who do not use interpersonal skills are being displaced more rapidly, imply a potentially significant long-term shift in the relative demand for interpersonal skills within the IT labor market.
Other results, which were based on a survey of 3,000 hiring managers in the U.S. and another survey of 6,000 workers:
- 15 percent of all U.S. firms offshore
- 40 percent IT firms offshore
- At 8 percent, the rate of IT worker job loss because of offshoring is double that of other industries
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