Offshore Jobs In Technology: Opportunity Or a Threat?

In offshore jobs people are hired for an external organization to perform some business functions in a country other than the one where the product or service is traded or consumed”, according to Bibby International services (Offshore). Forrester Research, a technology-consulting firm, indicates that by the year 2015, roughly 3.3 million United States (U.S.) based jobs in Information Technology (IT) will move offshore. Estimations by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) show potential savings from outsourced jobs to reach 21 billion dollars by 2008. However, it is also estimated between 2001 and 2005, ...