Off-shoring study disputes job exportation assumptions
Off-shoring study disputes job exportation assumptionsNew Mexico Business Weekly - March 10, 2006
by Haley Wachdorf, NMBW Staff
http://albuquerque.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/2006/03/13/story8.html
UNM professor Roli Varma says high-tech economies such as those New Mexico is nurturing have little to fear with regard to the exportation of information-technology jobs to India and other far-off places.
The phenomenon, known as "offshoring" is a sign that an industry is growing, not that it's leaving the country, she says.
She should know. Varma recently served on a task force of 30 researchers working to produce a global study by the Association for Computing Machinery about the exportation of American computer jobs overseas and says there are practical applications for the study's findings here in New Mexico...
...Randy Burge, president of the New Mexico Information Technology and Software Association agrees.
Technology itself, he says, has made it possible for this work to be done in almost every part of the world, and the trend will continue.
"You have to think of it as a wave of change," Burge says. "The waves of change are happening, and the question is how do we as a region, how do we as New Mexico, as a nation, prepare for that? This is the wave. If we're not participating in it, we miss out. What's important is how we leverage that globalization, and we can do that through education and entrepreneurship."
The entire ACM report is available at acm.org/globalizationreport.
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