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With Internet related jobs no longer in abundance, the traditional corporations that had previously struggled to fill their information technology positions suddenly had a large pool of skilled workers at their disposal. You might think this would work out to benefit both the businesses and the workers, but you would be wrong. Companies, struggling to compete in a bad economy, found they could save considerable money by having much of their IT work, and especially software development, done outside of the United States. Thanks to the Internet infrastructure these workers had helped to build, companies could transfer data almost instantly to anywhere in the world and communicate easily with email and instant messaging programs; it was now possible to have information workers around the world collaborating on projects together. There is a tremendous savings available to companies willing to exploit the differences in salaries between the U.S. and other countries. According to the McKinsey Global Institute (2003), "A software developer in the U.S. ... costs $60 an hour whereas one in India only costs $6 an hour.

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