More jobs moving offshore. 3 mil jobs to be sent over decade. China lures outsourced jobs from India

The practice of transferring American jobs to lower-cost countries, called offshoring, is climbing the food chain. It’s no longer just software programming and help desks that are being sent to India and elsewhere in Asia.

Fidelity National Financial of Jacksonville, Fla., is looking for tax processors in India. Intelliways, an Indian company that’s working on behalf of a U.S. Internet firm, wants someone there to write news releases. India’s Cactus Communications Pvt. Ltd. seeks someone in Asia to edit complex English-language research papers about topics in nuclear physics, astrophysics and particle physics for U.S. and other foreign clients.

Kevin G. Hall
Knight Ridder Newspapers

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China lures outsourced jobs from India

By Barbara Grady, BUSINESS WRITER

IT’S NOW ROUTINE for U.S. businesses to outsource information technology work to Asia, particularly India, which graduates thousands of well-educated engineers ready to workfor much lower pay than U.S. engineers.

But signs are emerging that India may not be able to keep up forever with the insatiable outsource demand — demand growing at 40 percent a year, according to some estimates. India’s National Association of Software and Services Cos. reports problems of employee poaching among tech firms and of roads and airports buckling under demands of surging traffic.

Waiting eagerly to pick up the slack is China.

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