Offshore BPO Services Not To Blame For Lost Jobs


Statistics show that the backlash in the U.S. over offshore BPO services isn’t really deserved, as according to an IT trade organization, the positives of offshore BPO services far outweigh the negatives. Jeff Lande, senior vice president at the Arlington, Va-based Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), told attendees at Gartner Inc.’s Outsourcing Summit that of the roughly 10 million IT workers in the U.S., 372,000 have lost their jobs in the last four years, mostly due to over hiring in the ‘90s, the dot-com meltdown and the recession. Lande claimed that only 104,000 of those were lost to offshore BPO’s.

The bottomline is offshore BPO services is very positive, it will increase jobs in every sector. In fact, hiring offshore BPO services will decrease inflation and increase everything from R & D and the GDP to business investment, real wages and consumer spending.

Jesmine