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The Los Angeles times in its Sunday Edition carried a front page article by Peter Pae entitled ” Some Firms Move Jobs Onshore “.

The gist of the article is that numerous large corporations are looking to send jobs to small town USA where overall savings can equal those of sending the work offshore.

This appears to be yet another indicator of a two-fold trend that came about in recent years. Numerous tech workers have moved to smaller rural communities in order to enjoy a better quality of life (and lower real estate costs), along with an overall trend in the US where companies are realizing that offshoring is not the panacea that it had been made out to be. Especially with the rise in offshore salaries over the past 3to 4 years.

I have some personal experience with this trend because members of Sequoia Services Group’s (site still under construction)  virtual team are located in small towns in Texas and Northern California. Hopefully this trend will continue. There is no reason that we can’t handle many of the projects and jobs currently shipped out of country.