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O tempo foi passando e algumas figuras de peso começaram a questionar as idéias do Thomas Friedman. Agora, um post de hoje no Wall Street Journal isso em números: caiu o número de empresas que terceiriza a produção de programas para outros países (principalmente Índia). Vejam abaixo alguns trechos e um link para o texto completo:
The world may not be so flat after all. A new survey claims the number of companies that send tech work overseas is surprisingly low.
Only 11% of businesses with more than 1,000 employees outsource offshore, according to the staffing firm Robert Half Technology. For the record, we’re shocked the number is this low. Katherine Spencer Lee, executive director at Robert Half Technology, was surprised as well. But the survey is sound: The responses come from more than 300 companies. And the numbers make sense in the context of the survey, which also found that only 6% of the 1,400 businesses of any size surveyed send tech work offshore. One reason it might be low, Spencer Lee tells us, is that some businesses may not consider tech work they outsource to U.S. companies like IBM and Accenture as offshoring, even if those companies perform the work in India or China. But that would only account for a few percentage points...
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