If you can describe a job precisely, or write rules for doing it, it is protected against offshoring.

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As soon as a job becomes routine enough to describe in a spec sheet, it becomes vulnerable to outsourcing.Says Fred Levy, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist, "If you can describe a job precisely, or write rules for doing it, it's unlikely to survive.Either we'll program a computer to do it, or we'll teach a foreigner to do it."

If You Can Describe a Job Precisely, or Write Rules