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"Big Shift in IT Jobs to Outsourcing Predicted", Thomas Hoffman
Between 35 percent and 45 percent of North American IT professionals will lose their jobs to part-timers, overseas technicians, contractors, and consultants by 2005, predicts Foote Partners. Foote Partners President David Foote attributes this trend to the fact that domestic application development is no longer affordable for American companies. Meanwhile, Meta Group analyst Maria Schafer says the situation Foote predicts is more likely to take place in 2006, and adds that Web design and application development remain growth areas for American IT workers. However, she acknowledges that IT workers in India, South America, Eastern Europe, and other offshore regions can do certain kinds of tasks for up to 50 percent less money than their American counterparts. Four high-level IT managers do not think their companies will be affected by the projected outsourcing trend, given that keeping IT in-house has been more cost-effective for them than their own outsourcing efforts. "The reason we've been successful in light of 9/11 and the economy and the bursting of the dot-com bubble is that we're in control of our own destiny and not locked into long-term contracts that may or may not be relative to our business anymore," notes Lydian Trust CTO John Studdard. Nevertheless, Foote and Gartner analyst Jeremy Grigg advise IT workers to become more adept in technologies such as wireless networking and IT security, or familiarize themselves with project management.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
"Big Shift in IT Jobs to Outsourcing Predicted", Thomas Hoffman
Between 35 percent and 45 percent of North American IT professionals will lose their jobs to part-timers, overseas technicians, contractors, and consultants by 2005, predicts Foote Partners. Foote Partners President David Foote attributes this trend to the fact that domestic application development is no longer affordable for American companies. Meanwhile, Meta Group analyst Maria Schafer says the situation Foote predicts is more likely to take place in 2006, and adds that Web design and application development remain growth areas for American IT workers. However, she acknowledges that IT workers in India, South America, Eastern Europe, and other offshore regions can do certain kinds of tasks for up to 50 percent less money than their American counterparts. Four high-level IT managers do not think their companies will be affected by the projected outsourcing trend, given that keeping IT in-house has been more cost-effective for them than their own outsourcing efforts. "The reason we've been successful in light of 9/11 and the economy and the bursting of the dot-com bubble is that we're in control of our own destiny and not locked into long-term contracts that may or may not be relative to our business anymore," notes Lydian Trust CTO John Studdard. Nevertheless, Foote and Gartner analyst Jeremy Grigg advise IT workers to become more adept in technologies such as wireless networking and IT security, or familiarize themselves with project management.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net