http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2001884969_btsiliconvalleyjobs22.html Not only is the talent in Canada — and in India, China and Romania — getting better, it's getting easier to find. Small brokers and major consulting firms now help tech companies find low-cost workers overseas. Equally important, executives say, is the state of communications. High-speed Internet connections are more pervasive, videoconferencing is routine and phone calls placed over the Internet are cheap. And more people throughout the world are using the same tools — such as Excel spreadsheets made by Microsoft and database software from Oracle — making collaboration across great distances much easier. Vulnerable jobs After reviewing recent offshore hiring to identify the professions most at risk, UC Berkeley economist Cynthia Kroll and her colleagues reported last month that 15.7 percent of the Silicon Valley's employees were in vulnerable lines of work, compared with 11 percent of the national work force. "Silicon Valley has already lost 18 percent of its jobs," Kroll said. "Outsourcing is definitely making it harder to replace even a fraction of those." _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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