Offshore Outsourcing

Outsourcing meant getting work done or buying services from an outside service provider rather than using own resources. At present standards, it has become more related to hiring the services of staff overseas where salaries are noticeably low as compared to the local existing standards. Usually outsourcing is done to get work done with less cost and high quality.  The cheap labor cost countries like China, India, Pakistan, etc., continue to attract companies to move work offshore and outside their own boundaries.

Offshore Outsourcing ensues largely in the IT sector, followed by medical transcription and other health care-related jobs, automotive spares/components, engineering segment, and business processing, accounting, advertising, Human Resource Management and Development, financial investment and consultancy, legal services, and network security.

Offshore Outsourcing is a fast growing practice worldwide because organizations are under pressure to get products out or upgrade their technologies fast, while continuing their present operations and without compromising their quality standards or internal resources. For this reason, most of the middle market firms and even smaller companies are looking at IT outsourcing.

Opponents point out that this sends work overseas, thereby reducing domestic employment and domestic investment. Many jobs in the infotech sectors like data entry, and customer support, have been or are potentially affected.

The criteria generally considered for a job to be offshore-able is:
• The job does not require direct customer interaction
• The job can be telework
• The work has a high information content
• The work is easy to set up
• There is a high wage difference between the original and offshore countries
• The work is repeatable

The advent of the Internet has enabled individuals and small businesses to contract freelancers from all over the world to get projects done at a minimum cost. This trend runs in parallel with the tendency towards big corporation’s outsourcing.

Offshore outsourcing is attracting companies all over the world due to its numerous advantages. However, it is a usual to overestimate the pros of outsourcing a part of your activities and forget about the fact that there is no activity that does not involve risk. That is why it is important for managers identify these risks, assess them and develop methods for justifying them.

About the author:

Nasir Mehmood is a Senior Web Marketing Executive at MechTechnologies.com .

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