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examples? (Score:1)
Exclude the ones where physical and cultural proximity is important -- requirements, sales, UI design, customer hand-holding.
Re:examples? (Score:2)
A good portion of government and defense related IT jobs cannot be moved offshore. Some of that work is done by offshore subcontractors, but certainly not all of it. And there is a limit to how much can be sent offshore due to political, legal, security, or privacy issues. With added r
Not quite the same, but... (Score:2)
Nearly all our Goverment and defense related IT here in Denmark is done by a US company - OK most og the workers are danish, but the owners and the management is american.
It bothers me quite a bit, but it doesn't seem to bother the goverment, who happily sold our CPR (Central Person register, cnf. the US Census and the registry of births and deaths rolled into one - it contains your current address social status and so on and on and on...), the Taxation programmes, the medical records of everyone and nearly all defense applications (the ones that ensured that the danish soldiers in Iraq are properly equipped with grassmovers, snow-shovels and salt to remove the ice on the wintry pavements in Basra!) to CSC -a US coporation.
OK, it's not outsourcing the IT jobs, it outsourcing the management, but I think that it's even worse.
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Re:Not quite the same, but... (Score:2)
Right, this is neither outsourcing nor offshoring IT. There are similar situations all over Europe, where foreign companies (usually American) are employing locals to do work for the local market. The jobs are staying in-country, not moving to Elbonia because IT costs are cheaper there.
The same thing is happening in the US: instead of direct employment, lots of jobs run by contracting organizations