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insourcing

insourcing

1 4.9
A company's use of its own employees instead of hiring outside contractors, often bringing work back from other firms
  • noun
  • /ˈɪnˌsɔːrsɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : internalización
  • Whether you call it reshoring, on-shoring, near-shoring, or insourcing, the main idea is that companies source things close to their markets.

Examples

  • And we want you to start using "insourcing" in all your campaign speeches.

  • While the president has been urging "insourcing," the government has been sending money to the Philippines to train foreign workers for jobs in English-speaking call centers.

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  • We call the concept "insourcing."

  • We've already lost most of our work thanks to Obama's insourcing push.

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  • This also includes human labor, which deprives our citizens of jobs through outsourcing and insourcing.

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  • We won't be getting the cut in taxes and the regulations that would spur on the massive insourcing, which would cause competition for employment and wage increases.

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  • Rather than choosing sides and arguing our way to the middle, we found ourselves agreeing that a broad set of choices between pure insourcing and pure outsourcing is more likely to match the specific needs of each organization.

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  • To improve efficiency, the company adopted insourcing to utilize its own skilled workers instead of hiring freelancers.

  • The trend of insourcing has led to the creation of more jobs within the community as businesses bring work back in-house.

  • Many firms are considering insourcing as a way to cut costs and boost employment by leveraging existing staff.

Antonyms

65 5.3

To hire another company to do work your company usually does

How Integrated

verticalism
  • Specialized
8.9
insourcing
  • Specialized
1 4.9
horizontal combination
  • Specialized
7.7

Surface Forms

insourcing singular
insourcings plural

Morphology

insourcing = insource (semi-transparent) = in + source + ing

The noun is a standard action noun formed from the verb 'insource' with '-ing'.

Etymology

Insourcing comes from the part in- meaning 'in' or 'inside' and the root source meaning 'the place where something comes from'. Think of it as the opposite of outsourcing: it means bringing work back 'inside' the company so your own people do the job.