Positive and Negatives Aspects of Offshoring
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Summarize the positive and negative aspects of offshoring, and state whether you support or are against offshoring and why. Include an experience that you or someone you know has had in which offshoring affected them positively/negatively.
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This solution discusses the advantages and disadvantages to a business considering offshoring in 513 words.
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Since off shoring is the allocation of chosen business processes to an external service provider that specializes with the specific function, there exist specific advantages and disadvantages that could arise from the practice.
The advantages that arise from off shoring is that many times, organizations may not be able to handle every single aspect of internal business processes. As a result of this, off shoring enables the firm to have continuity of the entire operations cycle since the firm is able to pay an external source to keep a certain functions of its own operations up and operational. Also, organizations may find themselves having processes that are temporary in nature. As a result of this, hiring a permanent person proves to be counter-productive for the ...
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