Forrester: - Making Leaders Successful Every Day

Forrester has increased its estimate of how many US services jobs will go offshore in the near term. Long term, we believe that our previous projection of 3.3 million by 2015 is still accurate. The near-term increase is driven by a combination of the following four factors: 1) Visibility has encouraged more conservative companies to experiment with going offshore to protect themselves competitively; 2) a broadening of the IT services offered by offshore vendors like Wipro and Infosys; 3) the establishment of captive offshore centers by user companies for business process outsourcing (BPO); and 4) onshore IT technology and services vendors setting up shop in locations like India, China, and Belarus to develop/maintain products or provide lower-cost services.