Jobs Go Global

Looking for a high-paying tech job? Good luck. Offshore outsourcing—the exporting of jobs that were once done in-house—has been on the increase, to the point where a report by Gartner Inc., an information technology research firm, calls the movement of tech-related jobs an “irreversible megatrend.”

By 2004, predicts another Gartner study, more than 40 percent of companies will have already shipped some tech-related work overseas or will be testing the idea.

Forrester [Research Inc.] came out with a study that said that 3.3 million white collar jobs will go overseas by 2015. It’s hard to forecast out one year, let alone 12, so I’m a bit wary of real numbers. But I do recognize that it is real, and is gaining momentum every day.