I admire the initiative taken by companies like Ciber and DecisionDesign to homeshore the work that has been offshored to Asia over the past two years. However, it is going to take more than a grassroots movement to make this happen. A top-down effort is required starting with legislative changes to make America more competitive by increasing subsidization and lowering taxation for companies that homeshore, and the slimming of the middle-management layer across corporate America to allow for the nurturing of productive talent at an affordable cost.
In another example of U.S. tech companies seeking to offer low-cost alternatives to offshoring, systems integrator Ciber has opened a facility in Oklahoma City. Greenwood Village, Colo.-based Ciber said the Oklahoma City site is the first of several low-cost, "made in America" application development centers it plans to open in 2005 and 2006. The company said it aims to create roughly 200 new jobs in Oklahoma City and upwards of 1,000 new jobs around the country, as additional "Cibersites" open. The Oklahoma City Cibersite opened Thursday. "The creation of low-cost, domestic development centers provides Ciber's clients with new opportunities to leverage today's complex global sourcing options," Ciber's Chief Executive said in a statement. "There are many American labor markets outside the traditional technology centers that have skilled but underutilized IT (information technology) workers who can get IT projects done faster and cheaper."
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