IEEE's positon paper on offshoring

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject: IEEE's positon paper on offshoring
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WASHINGTON, March 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Offshoring contributes to high
unemployment levels among U.S. technologists, and poses a serious, long-term
challenge to the nation's technological and innovative leadership, its
economic vitality and its military and homeland security, according to a
position recently adopted by IEEE-USA.

"We must develop a coordinated national strategy to maintain U.S.
technological leadership and promote job growth in the United States,"
IEEE-USA President John Steadman said. "But it's going to be difficult to
remain technologically competitive, if we continue offshoring the jobs of
our innovators at rates currently projected."

Offshoring, or the outsourcing of high-wage jobs from the United States to
lower-wage countries, is contributing to unprecedented unemployment rates
for U.S. electrical and electronics engineers (EEs) and other information
technology professionals. The EE joblessness rate rose by 47.6 percent in
2003 to a record 6.2 percent, compared to 4.2 percent in 2002. The 2003
unemployment rate for computer scientists and systems analysts reached an
all-time high of 5.2 percent.

The position statement, developed by the IEEE-USA Career & Workforce Policy
Committee, is available at www.ieeeusa.org/forum/POSITIONS/offshoring.html.

IEEE-USA is an organizational unit of The Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, Inc., created in 1973 to advance the public good,
while promoting the careers and public- policy interests of the more than
225,000 electrical, electronics, computer and software engineers who are
U.S. members of the IEEE. The IEEE is the world's largest technical
professional society. For more information, go to www.ieeeusa.org.

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