Joseph Stiglitz

Under the rule of law, if the government wants to prevent firms from outsourcing and offshoring, it enacts legislation and adopts regulations to create the appropriate incentives and discourage undesirable behaviour. It does not bully or threaten particular firms or portray traumatised refugees as a security threat.

American Economist

Paul Craig Roberts

Jobs offshoring began with manufacturing, but the rise of the high-speed Internet made it possible to move offshore tradable professional skills, such as software engineering, information technology, various forms of engineering, architecture, accounting, and even the medical reading of MRIs and CT-Scans.

Marx and Lenin were ahead of their time. Marx wrote before offshoring of jobs and the financialization of the economy. Lenin presided over a communist revolution that jumped the gun by taking place in a country in which feudal elements still predominated over capitalism.

Noam Chomsky

From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.

American Activist

Offshoring manufacturing jobs left Americans with fewer high-value-added, well-paid jobs, and the U.S. middle class downsized. Ladders of upward mobility were taken down. Income and wealth distributions worsened.

William M. Daley

When the manufacturing decline began in earnest in 2001, the main culprits were the offshoring of jobs to China, with which we have no trade deal, and automation.

American Politician

Philipp Meyer

I'd grown up in a working class neighborhood in Baltimore, a place hard hit by the offshoring of numerous heavy industries - steel, textile, shipbuilding.

American Writer

The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the U.S. financial system have resulted in American economic failure.

Moshe Vardi

Offshoring is like the winter. You don't ask if it is good or bad - you ask what do you do about it. The answer is you dress warmly.

Israeli Mathematician

Sanjay Kumar

There are companies that are cutting their costs by over 50% by offshoring.

Businessman

Offshoring is used as part of a business strategy to save costs.

Business Strategy

Offshoring can be controversial, often debated in politics and economics.

Controversial Topic

Offshoring reflects how businesses operate globally, beyond their home country.

Global Reach

Offshoring as a verb indicates the action of moving business processes.

Context Specific

The verb form implies an action driven by economic benefit.

Economic Motives

The act of offshoring often involves strategic business decisions.

Business Decisions

 offshoring industry is what we call the global delivery model well the global delivery model allows it it allows you to take previously geographically co-located tasks break them up into parts send them around the world where the expertise and the cost structure exists and then specify the means for reintegrating them without

India's invisible...

 because of this huge industry that has started over the last two decades in India, offshoring software development and back office services, there's been a flight of white collar jobs from the developed world to India.