The global economic crisis, as well as pressure from the Obama administration to keep jobs at home, may be causing some tech executives to rethink their outsourcing strategies.
A new survey of chief financial officers suggests these perilous times are causing some to consider outsourcing operations to other regions of the United States rather than overseas. While there is no evidence of a major shift in outsourcing — and while some experts think the bad economy will actually accelerate the movement of U.S. jobs to developing countries — the recession clearly has caused corporations to reassess their global strategies.
Twenty-two percent of the respondents said they were more likely to consider the United States for new outsourcing work than foreign countries, according to the BDO Seidman 2009 Technology Outlook Survey taken in January and released on Tuesday. The report tallied responses from 100 chief financial officers at hardware, software, telecommunications and Internet companies nationwide.
