December 30, 2002 (The Boston Globe) - Inspired by new technologies and changes in the way the company operates America, the employer will have more than 3.3 million white-collar, service jobs and 136 billion in wages overseas in the next 15 years, you are looking for a reduction in higher costs of production and higher profits, Forrester Research, Inc.
In addition, the executive of the information technology industry - the industry are often credited refuelling in the United States with the economic boom of the 1990’s - said the company Cambridge prognosis.
Back-office accounting and call customers work is already sent abroad. But in the future, vocational training positions in the areas of technology, law, art, architecture, life sciences, economics and administration, Forrester said.
Its report is one of the first attempts to quantify the jobs that are lost to overseas.
“We believe that out of 700 categories of services in the United States, about 550 are influenced by offshore outsourcing in any manner whatsoever, over the next 15 years,” said John C. McCarthy, an analyst, the report of the author is not permitted.
“Companies do it because they feel they can be of a better quality of employment for 50 percent of the costs. This is another way of the American economy more efficient, more competitive and more prosperity, “he added.
Global Outsourcing is a growth company, “said Bob Pryor, vice president of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young and director of the company, the outsourcing practices in North America and South America. In the past, he said, American companies on foreign workers with H-1B visas in order to cut costs. “Now they are outsourcing,” or sending the work overseas.
In the services sector, basic information, technical assistance, computer programming and clerical work are the main trends.
In 2000, computer and back-office work to represent significant parts of 102674 jobs shipped abroad, the 27171 and 53987 posts, respectively, “said McCarthy.
Up to the year 2015, he added, 472632 workstations computer and 1.65 million jobs in an office, have been moved to places such as China, India, the Philippines, Russia .
Some American companies to maximize production using Web sites or contracts with foreign service in another time zone, you can use three times the amount of work done is that the extension of the day Working 24 hours.
Take mValent, Tewksbury software companies during the past year, that the use of funds from Charles River Ventures and IDG Ventures to expand.
Once every four weeks or so, Raman-South, Vice President of Engineering, will travel to New Delhi, India, to interview professionals an Indian company, has declared its readiness exhausted. The goal is to set up parallel mValent teams of highly skilled employees in the United States and India, the technology infrastructure.
South of Technology, said workers in remote sites or disruptions in less distracting, because the company may not introduce office, which is not the work of the project in hand. In addition, he said, with two teams, the work was never interrupted.
“It will be possible for both teams to use in tandem, so that when the sun we work here, and if they work downwards,” he said.
“There are also benefits in terms of costs … For every person you have here, can be three or four of India - people with degrees Engineering and Computer Science, and the experience of five years of more. ”
“We spent a mentor to them, and help with the speed in a month,” he added. “The mentor is here. Do we have a critical mass, people come to mentor new people in Our plan is, within the next six to nine months, nearly 15 people. At the moment, we have four, and you are very balanced [Indian Standards]. So if you are a software developer, this would be about a third of what is a developer here. For an administrator, you may find that half. ”
MValent is hardly the first in the United States, offshore outsourcing, though. For 30 years, hundreds of producers were at least part of the production overseas. But the trend is growing, analysts say.
Forrester’s McCarthy said the United States can benefit employees when the training and know-how or manage offshore work his stateside foundations.
“There are certainly economies,” said Suzy Punj, senior vice president of Strategic Research Institute in New York. “We could pay someone $ 40000 to do here, call center or back office.
There, they would be more than $ 4000, which is a good salary [in India].
There, they receive the benefits of the car and services in the house, an apartment, and free lunch. People keep. ”
General Electric Co., Boeing Co., Ltd and Nortel Networks are part of the company, sending programming jobs to India, Ireland, Russia and China, according to Gartner, Inc., Stamford, Conn.
