IT Jobs In Jeopardy To Enemy Within

If you’ve got a well-paying IT job in one of the traditional centers of technology like Boston, New York, or San Francisco, you and your coworkers have had to withstand the increasing outsourcing of jobs to emerging nations in recent years. But it may be more likely you’ll be losing your job to someone in Omaha, Neb.

That’s according to a survey being presented next week by The Boyd Company. Boyd specializes in site selection for data center projects. It looked at 35 cities in the United States and created a detailed analysis of what it costs to do business in America. Among the findings, not too surprisingly, is that just about everything’s a lot cheaper in the heartland.

"Businesses are being priced out of locations like Boston, San Diego, and New York," says John Boyd Jr., a consultant with Boyd. "The idea of attracting and retaining a workforce in a small city in the Midwest today is actually quite appealing."

By Darrell Dunn

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