Why Offshore When Canada's Next Door?

Roblimo writes "A study by accounting and consulting giant PriceWaterhouseCoopers claims Canada could lose up to 75,000 IT jobs by 2010 to offshore outsourcing, but could also *gain* 165,000 jobs through U.S. outsourcing contracts. The trick is, according to this story at IT Manager's Journal, that while Indian, Chinese, and Russian programmers may cost 80% less than U.S. programmers, the time zone, language, legal, and other problems involved with sending work half way around the world can eat up much of the labor savings, while Canadian programmers are nearby, speak English with nearly American accents, have a similar culture and legal system, and get paid 40% less than U.S. programmers. Might be time to think about moving North, eh?"

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Re:Well, I'm one example

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Used to be.

I distinctly remember playing a game of Jedi Knight using msn internet in my youth, when in the middle of a big game, this stupid message took the focus away from the game and said something like 'We'd just like to remind you that your internet is coming from Microsoft' or something equally inane. And it cost me the game.