ACS Joins Others in Sending ‘More Complex’ Jobs Offshore

Earlier this year, a CareerBuilder.com Wharton School study showed that 28 percent of U.S. companies said they were offshoring an increasing number of high-wage, high-skills jobs. ACS, one of the “Big Six” North American outsourcing specialists, is among those ranks. During a call discussing its most recent financial results, ACS said it planned this year to increase the number of employees working offshore by 4,200. That includes “more complex, higher paying jobs,” said CEO Lynn Blodgett during the call. Offshoring these positions will yield cost savings that ACS plans to invest in key areas such as sales and new product development, said the company’s COO, who called the move “the right thing to do and the right time to do it.”