| "Even though the term "outsourcing" has become synonymous with the practice of sending jobs overseas, the bulk of outsourcing activities70.2 percentoccur on the domestic front..." |
2004 Enterprise Systems Outsourcing Survey |
October 2004 |
| "...a University of California-Berkeley study that warns as many as 14 million Americans hold jobs at risk of being outsourced." |
Mercury News |
October 2004 |
| "...the worldwide market for offshore IT services will grow from nearly $7 billion in revenues in 2003 to $17 billion by 2008, achieving a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 20%." |
IDC |
October 2004 |
| "Several offshore outsourcing vendors now exceed $1 billion in annual revenue, and the total market is greater than $10 billion." |
META Group |
October 2004 |
| "...the average enterprise will ultimately outsource 60% of application work offshore (circa 2008/09)." |
META Group |
October 2004 |
| "The offshore outsourcing market will continue to grow nearly 20% annually through 2008..." |
META Group |
October 2004 |
| "AMR Research released a study today announcing that manufacturers plan to increase outsource spending 9.3 percent in 2005 in an effort to contain internal IT costs." |
AMR Research |
October 2004 |
| "Despite these limitations, the report showed that in 2002 the US imported 37.5 billion US dollars worth of business, professional and technical (BPT) services, which is a 76.8 percent increase since 1997." |
INQ7.net referencing GAO Study |
October 2004 |
| "Major IT services companies worldwide currently employ 14% of their combined workforce in India, as they tap into the country's low-cost IT and back-office skills base. Research from ComputerWire found that the top 50 IT services companies currently employ a total of 1.25 million employees worldwide, with 173,000 of this total based in India." |
Computer Business Review Online |
September 2004 |
| "The U.S. information technology sector lost 403,300 jobs between March 2001 and this past April..." |
Associated Press |
September 2004 |
| "American employers will hire 270,000 fewer IT workers this year than they did in 2003, according to a poll of 500 hiring managers by the Information Technology Association of America, providing fresh evidence that the IT-labor market continues to weaken." |
InformationWeek |
September 2004 |
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