Offshoring has become one of the most striking features of the global economy. Offshoring refers to the tendency of firms in developed countries to relocate work to firms in other countries. Big businesses are not the only ones who can profit from sending work overseas. Individuals can make cost and time savings, too.

Offshoring, or sending work to countries where a workforce charges are less for the same thing, is big business. Of late occurrence, large companies have beehive of departments - call centers, engineering plants, and research and development labs and so on - to countries such as India, where an educated workforce costs a fraction of the price in a fully industrialized country.

For big companies, offshoring can make a lot of sense. If there are issues regarding the management of the process, and the need for extremely clear communication between the two parties, the majority of these offshoring deals are successful.

Although offshoring itself is a part of international trade in intermediate outputs, it also has the ability to create a new trade patterns by increasing the demand for goods and services in recipient offshoring countries.

With personal offshoring sites, auction and escrow arrangement is quite ordinary thing to be happen. Both you and the business at the other end are protected from fraud and non-payment and, by off-loading the credit checking and banking systems to the credit card companies, the offshoring marketplaces can be very efficient.

It is widely accepted that offshoring can enhance growth in productivity. There are three statements that hold water to this.

• Firms can focus on strengthening core competencies by moving lower value jobs to foreign countries.
• Self selection process can raise industry level productivity.
• The lower cost of offshored IT services could contribute in improving the efficiency of business process by reducing the cost of technology and communication.