Global Job Shift

FEBRUARY 3, 2003
Businessweek

The New Global Job Shift

The next round of globalization is sending upscale jobs offshore. They include basic research, chip design, engineering--even financial analysis.

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Fluor Corp. (FLR ) of Aliso Viejo, Calif., employs 1,200 engineers and draftsmen in the Philippines, Poland, and India to turn layouts of giant industrial facilities into detailed specs and blueprints. For a multibillion-dollar petrochemical plant Fluor is designing in Saudi Arabia, a job requiring 50,000 separate construction plans, 200 young Filipino engineers earning less than $3,000 a year collaborate in real time with elite U.S. and British engineers making up to $90,000 via Web portals.

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