Offshore IT outsourcing once was considered the wave of the future. Apparently, however, the practice has taken a sharp downturn in popularity, according to recent survey results from Menlo Park, Calif.-based executive search and staffing firm Robert Half Technology.
A staggering 94 percent of participating CIOs responded that their companies currently are not outsourcing technology positions to firms outside the U.S. Further, the survey indicates that this trend will not reverse in the immediate future. Eighty-six percent of all respondents said they have no plans to change their level of IT outsourcing in the next two years. The survey was conducted by an independent research firm and was based on more than 1,400 interviews with CIOs from a random sample of U.S. companies with 100 or more employees.
