offshoring

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• Over the last two decades, India has become a global hub for software development and offshoring of back office services, as we call it.

• Once we stop giving tax breaks for offshoring, the middle class can thrive again.

  Blog text (26)

• So this created a new wave of sort of, you know, offshoring manufacturing to other countries.

• So far, the "offshoring" of U.S. information technology has attracted most of the attention.

  Academic text (2004)

• The conventional wisdom is that massive offshoring of service jobs to India is a good thing.

  Blog text (23)

• The lower strata of the legal profession are already going the way of automation and offshoring.

  Blog text (20)

• The list of advantages to offshoring that Mr. Conard ticked off was interesting.

  Blog text (12)

• Widespread acceptance of offshoring of services represents a significant manifestation of this commoditization.

  Academic text (2011)

• Fritz, whose non-profit organization advises Congress, said policymakers have little solid data to assess how strong the offshoring tide has become.

  Academic text (2004)

• The number of American jobs that could potentially be offshored to a country with lower wages is large (Blinder 2009), and the offshoring of services could lead to the same sort of upward bias in measures of productivity that is caused by the offshoring of goods.

  Academic text (2016)

Synonyms

D

delocalization

vsoffshoring

• Specialized

7.7

Moving jobs or production to another country to lower costs

moves them specifically to another country often to reduce costs or avoid regulations

Antonyms

I

insourcing

• Specialized

1 4.9

A company's use of its own employees instead of hiring outside contractors, often bringing work back from other firms

How Local

local produce

3 2.2

to nearshore

• Jargon

6.1

delocalization

• Specialized

7.7

offshoring

5 4.6

Surface Forms

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