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The outsourcing of computing work to other countries may not be as bad as many Americans think. In fact, it probably isn't bad at all
The outsourcing of computing work to other countries may not be as bad as many Americans think. In fact, it probably isn't bad at all. Consider one recent study that says the problem isn't so much the competition from high-tech workers in places like India and Romania as it is the discouragement caused by the doomsayers themselves. The Association for Computing Machinery, the professional organization that issued the report, says that there are more information technology jobs today in the United States than at the height of the dot- com boom. While 2 to 3 percent of U.S. jobs in the field migrate to other nations each year, new jobs have thus far more than made up for the loss
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