The world’s second largest tech service provider offshored more than 20,000 jobs to places like Mexico, India and Hungary by the end of 2003. So it comes as no surprise to critics of offshoring that Electronic Data Services announced early this week that it’s offering an early retirement plan to over 9,000 U.S. workers. More than 17,000 of the jobs offshored by EDS were in the customer service field. However, at the end of last year the company sent nearly 2,400 jobs for software developers and engineers abroad. In its announcement, EDS says the offshoring is part of a larger plan to reduce its U.S. workforce by up to 20,000 employees.