19 Apr 2004
Offshoring Trends Net Biotech Firms

It's not just us programmer types who need to be worried. But what irony: I heard some local yokel politico say the other day something to the effect of "Well, so what if all the programmers and IT jobs are moving to India, 'cause we've got biotech to replace them."

According to this article in the San Francisco Chronicle, BioTech, once considered to be the next innovative sector to help offset the jobs losses from IT offshoring, is showing signs of riding an offshoring wave of its own.

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