Offshoring hits a broader range of job types.

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Offshoring is heading for your job, too. If you work with a computer or process data, watch out.
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"OfficeTiger Ltd., one of the most prominent and aggressive of a new breed of outsourcing companies, has hired 2,000 Indians, most of them young and all of them relentlessly gung-ho.

They work as typists, researchers, librarians, claims processors, proofreaders, accountants and graphic designers. Their clients are U.S. brokerage firms, investment banks, law firms and even copy shops."

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"Outsourcing, which started with U.S. firms laying off software programmers and call center workers and hiring cheaper employees overseas, is now stretching to encompass almost any kind of work that is done on a computer and is orderly and repetitive in structure. That's a vast category that stretches from copy editing to financial analysis to tax preparation."

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"Sigelman said he was doing his best to keep American corporate hiring down.

"We hope to be leading the move of white-collar jobs from the U.S.," he told the Economic Times, an Indian paper, in December."

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"Over the longer term, Celent Communications, a consulting firm, calculates that 2.3 million financial jobs are at risk. Researchers at UC Berkeley think that as many as 14 million jobs of all types are vulnerable."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=2026&e=3&u=/latimests/20040829/ts_latimes/officeoftomorrowhasanaddressinindia
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This is so depressing. If Bush is re-elected, this will accelerate alarmingly. Tell your friends and co-workers.