One In Ten US Technology Jobs Could Move To India Or Russia, Warns Gartner

One in ten jobs in the US IT industry are at risk of being exported to low cost emerging markets such as India or Russia by the end of 2004, according to computer consultancy Gartner Inc. Its report, entitled U.S.

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One in ten jobs in the US IT industry are at risk of being exported to low-cost emerging markets such as India or Russia by the end of 2004, according to computer consultancy Gartner Inc. Its report, entitled U.S. Offshore Outsourcing: Structural Changes, Big Impact, suggests that 500,000 of 10.3 million American technology jobs could move this year and next, putting at risk another one in twenty jobs in technology-dependent sectors such as banking, health care and insurance.

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