http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/19/HNindustry_1.html
The Developer Forum in San Francisco was the latest venue for expressing lament about the fact that the IT job market may be permanently down. A number of policies and trends [such as a continuing decline in technical education in the USA] mean that the trained workforce to staff the jobs is not there, even if the jobs were.
The advantages of outsourcing include tapping into a global pool of talent, although there are real difficulties here as well. It does seem clear that the more "conceptual" an IT element is, the more likely it is to be outcountried. It is easier to manage programmers remotely than to implement helpdesk repairs the same way.
Posted by jho at September 23, 2003 10:56 AM