Computer programming topped the list of 22 job categories ranked according to "offshorability" by Princeton University Economist Alan S. Blinder in a paper he released last March. Blinder estimates that up to 29 percent of all U.S. jobs could be potentially offshorable in the next decade or two. He doesn't say the jobs necessarily will be sent overseas. He merely thinks they could wind up earning some lucky workers rupees or pesos instead of dollars and cents.
Computer systems analysts were number three on Binder's list. Support specialists, application software engineers and systems engineers ranked six, seven and eight on his inventory of potential job insecurity.
This probably comes as no surprise, considering that 528,478 U.S. "tech" jobs were outsourced to other countries -- or offshored -- between January 1, 2000 and June 13, 2007, according to TechsUnite.org, a would-be union-forming affiliate of the Communications Workers of America.
