Companies are not required to keep any records of jobs outsourced. None. And what's really amazing is that most of the very few statistics that are available are from the outsourcing firms themselves.
But, we know that there were more than 2 million manufacturing jobs lost -- and that's prior to 2004.
And in the service industry alone,
with jobs leaving at a rate of 12,000 to 15,000 per month, says John McCarthy, the company's director of research. Other estimates say up to 20,000 jobs a month may be moving overseas.
CFR
India expects to create 2 million jobs in the next decade in offshore BPO. Guess where those jobs are going to be coming from.
That's just India, just "BPO" (business process outsourcing, not manufacturing or other sectors--in other words, just directly moving a job there) and that estimate was 2004 --how about China or Vietnam or Thailand? We simply don't know.
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