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01 Mar 2009
How Many Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
Topics: Geography-Geographic ScopeLifestyle-TravelJobs and Positions-GeneralIn an exercise overseen by seventeen HBS faculty members, nearly 900 members of the MBA Class of 2009 looked at more than 800 occupations in the United States. They found that it’s not just low-skill jobs that can be readily performed for less overseas. With continuing advances in communications, students judged that over the next ten years, 21 to 42 percent of all U.S. jobs were potentially “offshorable.” To learn more, visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6012.html.
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