I have to admit that this news is shocking to me. Outsourcing is nothing new but 70% jobs is not a small matter either. The shocking thing is that the 70% jobs that we are talking about are in the public sector. This prediction has come from Bill Thomas, head of EDS's European, African and
An estimated 70 per cent of public sector IT jobs inBritain could be moved abroad to cheaper economies likeIndia or, a top official of a leading IT firm has said. China
Bill Thomas, head of EDS's European, African and Middle East units, told The Daily Telegraph newspaper that he expected a dramatic change in the public sector IT personnel as former civil servants employed by private sector groups faced the prospect of losing their jobs to so-called off-shoring. The Texas-based EDS is the biggest supplier of IT to the Government.
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I have been covering outsourcing in this blog for quite some time now. I feel that outsourcing is an inevitable reality. So, although I am shocked from the prediction of Bill Thomas, I understand that it may happen within a few years.
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