BusinessWeek Story on DOC Offshoring Report

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> This Business Week story appears in the most recent print edition,  
> FYI:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_42/ 
c3955025.htm#ZZZ24WZQGEE

> OFFSHORING
> Just The Bright Side, Thanks
>
> After holding off for more than a year, the Commerce Dept. has quietly
> released a study of offshoringothe movement of white-collar jobs to
> low-wage countries. But it's not the even-handed assessment  
> completed by
> staff analysts in June, 2004, after six months of research. The staff
> report was largely ditched, say outside experts who heard the  
> staffers'
> views. Instead, these critics charge, Commerce political appointees  
> put
> out a 12-page report that portrays offshoring as an unconditional boon
> to the U.S. economy. After BusinessWeek's print edition went to  
> press on
> Oct. 5, the Commerce Dept. responded by saying: "In carefully  
> developing
> the report, we sought to ensure that it was thorough, objective and  
> that
> the competitive environment was properly assessed and supported by  
> hard
> data."
>
> Commerce has only released its final report to Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.)
> who ordered it up, but BusinessWeek has obtained a copy, as well as a
> slide show tied to the original research, presented by staffers at a
> conference last December.
>
> The staff researchers' presentation gave both the pros and cons,
> comparing factors that favor U.S. high-tech job growth with those that
> favor offshoring. The official version dispenses with most of the
> disadvantages. Instead it points to pro-offshoring studies done by
> McKinsey Global Institute and uncritically cites data from a lobbying
> group that represents the U.S. subsidiaries of foreign companies. "No
> objective analysts, even if they were in favor of outsourcing, would
> write a report like this," says Ron Hira, a professor at Rochester
> Institute of Technology, who saw the December presentation. To see the
> slide show and official report, go to www.businessweek.com/extras
> By Aaron Bernstein
>
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>
> Online Extra: The Commerce Dept.'s Official Offshoring Report
>
> Here's the department's full-length "Six-Month Assessment of Workforce
> Globallization In Certain Knowledge-Based Industries. To read the
> report, click here.
<http://images.businessweek.com/ss/05/10/commercebriefing/ 
commerce_offshorin
g_report.pdf>

> Back to Top
>
> Online Extra: Commerce Staffers' Original Offshoring Report
>
> Here's the original presentation prepared by Commerce Dept.
> researchers, with pros and cons for the U.S. workforce. To view the
> slide show, click here
> <http://images.businessweek.com/ss/05/10/commercebriefing/index.htm>
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