Offshoring and Outsourcing Controversy

Offshoring of technical and research service jobs arose a new debate field in the US. Many of the high-payment, professional and technical positions, has recently been offshored. However, minimum cost is obtained by these offshoring programs but offshoring these technical fields may have potentially serious consequences for America's long-term national competitiveness. The business strategy of offshoring firm research and development (R&D) activities of critically important industries may result in lack of knowledge in the US in the long term. Offshoring high tech tasks like high tech manufacturing processes or researches may weaken the inside companies and may result in dependency on other countries in some technological areas for the US in a long term perspective. Consequently, during designing an offshoring or outsourcing program many technological aspects should be considered and they should be designed based on long term strategic planes for the firm and the country.