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2004
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IEEE
Orlando Section
PACE
(Professional
Activities Committee for Engineers)
IN THIS
ISSUE:
- Few
Future U.S. Careers in
IT?
CIO magazine is a good source for
trends in IT. Gartner is a leading tour guide
for CIOs wanting to outsource offshore.
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- https://www2.cio.com/analyst/report1647.html
is the URL for an assessment by a Gartner VP
& research director of the impact of
offshore outsourcing.
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- An excerpt:
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- Not a Pretty Picture for the IT
Workforce
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- Since 2001, according to the U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics, more than 500,000 people in IT
professions in the United States have lost their
jobs. Some were caught in the dot-com bust.
Others were laid off by cost cuts, shrinking
budgets, a poor economy and a desire to satisfy
shareholders quarter by quarter. Now, a growing
number of IT professionals and practitioners are
having their jobs displaced as IT work moves to
offshore venues.
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- Without a "shot of adrenaline" to the U.S.
IT profession - such as an investment boom, a
"white knight" industry, new IT-led innovation
or new ways of competing globally - the scenario
for the IT workforce in the United States and
other developed nations looks bleak.
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- Large U.S. enterprises, vendors and service
providers aggressively are investigating or
pursuing offshore markets for IT delivery.
Combining that interest with minimal new
investment, preliminary Gartner analysis - based
on the IT Association of America's count of 10.3
million IT practitioners in the United States in
2003 - indicates that another 500,000 IT jobs
plausibly may disappear by year-end 2004.
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- George's note-
- The earlier (2001) NRC study of the IT
workforce concluded that it included 10 million
workers - half degreed. See
https://www.nap.edu/books/0309069939/html/R1.html
After the layoffs of the past two years, the
ITAA estimate of 10.3 million for 2003 may be
high.
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- George F McClure
- g.mcclure@ieee.org
- 1730 Shiloh Ln
- Winter Park, FL 32789
- Ph. 407-647-5092
- Fax 407-644-4076
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- Videos
on Lost Jobs
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- Three
videos about H-1B, L-1, and offshore outsourcing
are available for your viewing at
https://www.zazona.com/shameh1b/MediaClips.htm
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- The
first one is the Lou Dobbs Moneyline feature
called "Exporting
- America,"
that ran on CNN in May. This one is 21 minutes
long, 35.5 MB, and takes 4 minutes 39 seconds to
load in high resolution with cable or DSL. Ron
Hira of IEEE-USA is interviewed.
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- The
next two are from WKMG-TV in Orlando -
follow-ups to the "Stolen Jobs" feature done
last fall that was captured on the IEEE-USA
CD-ROM. These ran this week and included
Capitol Hill testimony by Pat Fluno, one of the
software engineers laid off by Siemens after she
trained her Indian replacement, and interviews
with George McClure and Chris McManes of
IEEE-USA. These are much shorter and load
faster.
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- Rob
Sanchez has made these available on his server.
Thanks, Rob!
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- George
F McClure
- g.mcclure@ieee.org
- 1730
Shiloh Ln
- Winter
Park, FL 32789
- Ph.
407-647-5092
- Fax
407-644-4076
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