IT offshore outsourcing: impact on CS/IS curriculum

In November 2002 Forrester Research report [6] predicted that at least 3.3 million white-collar jobs and $136 billion in wages are expected to shift overseas by 2015, of which nearly one million would be IT-related. This was brought closer home when headlines in the Kansas City Star detailed the extensive layoffs of Sprint IT employees due to outsourcing [7]. According to Evans Data Corporation, 4.0% of outsourcing work was done offshore a year ago while 9.6% of outsourcing work is done offshore today [1]. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 2.1% of U.S. computer and math workers were unemployed as of July 2000. That number had risen to 5.6% by July 2003 [1].