{"id":54,"date":"2004-01-27T17:31:28","date_gmt":"2004-01-27T22:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=54"},"modified":"2004-01-27T17:31:28","modified_gmt":"2004-01-27T22:31:28","slug":"they-should-look-on-cape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"They should look on Cape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s working:  the lobbying efforts of IT pros, coupled with in-company resistance by middle managers, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/managementtopics\/management\/story\/0,10801,89364,00.html?f=x247\" target=\"_blank\">putting a damper<\/a> on offshoring tech jobs.<br \/>\nInstead, some companies are now moving projects to U.S. cities where wages are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/managementtopics\/outsourcing\/story\/0,10801,89402,00.html?SKC=outsourcing-89402\" target=\"_blank\">20-30% lower<\/a> than in high tech centers like San Francisco.<br \/>\nIn a recent survey commissioned by the Cape Cod Human Resources Association, it was found that salaries for managers on Cape are <b>25% lower<\/b> than in other parts of Massachusetts.<br \/>\nPerhaps there&#8217;s hope for the resurrection of the Sili Sandbar.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nFor a list of U.S. companies that have offshored jobs, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/CNN\/Programs\/lou.dobbs.tonight\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lou Dobb&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s working: the lobbying efforts of IT pros, coupled with in-company resistance by middle managers, is putting a damper on offshoring tech jobs. Instead, some companies are now moving projects to U.S. cities where wages are 20-30% lower than in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=54\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}