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the art of making your problem someone else's deliverable, ideally in another timezone.
means The practice of handing off work or services to an outside party — often a separate company or one in another country — rather than handling it in-house.
from A relatively modern business coinage, built from plain English parts: "out" (away from oneself) plus "source" (the origin or supplier of something). "Source" itself traces back through Old French to Latin 'surgere,' to rise up — the place from which a thing springs forth, as a river rises from its source. The verb "to outsource," meaning to obtain goods or labor from an outside source, surfaced in the language of management and manufacturing in the late 20th century and spread fast as the world's supply chains stretched across borders.
- origin word
- Coined in business jargon around 1981.
- timezone trick
- Work continues while your office sleeps.
- reverse flow
- Companies now outsourcing back home, called reshoring.
- unexpected scope
- Even CEOs and armies get outsourced sometimes.
- hidden cost
- Saved wages often eaten by coordination chaos.
apple manufacturing in china — foxconn assembles over 200 million iphones annually in shenzhen
indian it services — tcs, infosys, and wipro handle software development for fortune 500 companies
payroll processing in mexico — multinational corporations outsource hr administration to ciudad de mexico