Bringing Offshore jobs back to Michigan

Crains Detroit Business is reporting that Strategic Staffing Solutions is bringing jobs back to Southeast Michigan. S3 is opening up a new downtown Detroit contract IT employment center at Penobscot Building. The center will open in March 2010 with about 50-100 employees. President and CEO Cynthia Pasky said

the center eventually will create jobs for 437 new contract IT employees within 2 years' time.

(more at Crains Detroit Business)

Economic Times of india is reporting that System in Motion (SIM), a Michigan based start up which was launched a few months ago is planning to deliver low cost IT services from Ann Arbor and other locations.

System in Motion is promising to create more than 1,100 jobs over next five years in Michigan.

Systems in Motion is backed by several angel investors including Preetish Nijhawan, the Akamai founder, Michael G Parks, the former CIO of Virgin Mobile and Wells Fargo.

For more on this story check out Economic Times.