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 It's probably a relatively small percentage. Check out this site. It's
probably as accurate as anything but based on people submitting
numbers...

http://www.techsunite.org/offshore/index.cfm

Greg Stigers <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message news:<[log in to unmask]>...
> Do we have some hard numbers on how many jobs really have been "offshored"?
> I cannot escape the feeling that this is a tempest in a teapot. And I say
> that, having been 'let go' by a company that offered both nearshore (Canada)
> and offshore (India) work. Compared to the number employed in the U.S., it's
> barely a sliver of the pie.
>
> Two ironies keep striking me. The first is that the press has taken to
> calling this outsourcing, which must be heck for companies that are
> outsourcers in the typical sense. Second is that the weaker American dollar
> has hurt this value proposition.
>
> Greg Stigers, MCSA
> this space for rent

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