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Gartner: One in 20 end-user IT jobs to move offshore by late 2004

But pinning down definitive numbers is hard to do, the research firm said

By Thomas Hoffman
JULY 30, 2003

Between now and the end of 2004, one out of every 10 jobs at U.S. IT
vendors and services providers -- and one out of 20 IT jobs at user
companies -- will be moved offshore, according to a report released
yesterday by Gartner Inc.

Through 2005, fewer than 40% of U.S. IT workers whose jobs have been
moved offshore will be "redeployed" by their current employers.

The Gartner study, which is continuing, draws upon IT employment figures
maintained by the Information Technology Association of America, an
Arlington, Va.-based industry association that places the U.S. IT
workforce at 10.3 million people.

For its part, Gartner is still trying to determine the total number of
jobs that will be moved offshore to places such as India and Singapore,
said Fran Karamouzis, a Gartner analyst. A November 2002 report issued
by Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research Inc. predicted that 3.3
million U.S. services jobs -- including 472,632 IT and mathematics
positions -- will be sent offshore by 2015.

full:
http://www.computerworld.com/careertopics/careers/labor/story/0,10801,83568,00.html