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Study Claims Offshoring Doesn't Cost US Jobs

Posted by kdawson on from the uh-huh dept.

SwashbucklingCowboy writes "Infoworld has an article up about a survey by the Software & Information Industry Association claiming that offshoring doesn't cost American jobs. The article quotes the executive director of the SIIA as saying, '[Offshoring] was used almost entirely as a form of expansion, not as a replacement.' Well, if a job is created elsewhere that could have been created in the US, isn't that a job lost?"

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  1. Offshoring cost me my job by JavaManJim · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I worked for a major retailer for 17 years, then Feb 18 2005 wammo! My job was replaced by offshoring. The person now at my desk is a figurehead (or project manager) for a programming group in Bangalore.

    Thanks,
    Jim