Working practice
Far-shore
Outsourcing to a location six or more hours from your working day.
Definition
Placing work in a country with a large time-zone gap, commonly six hours or more. It is a statement about geography, not about capability: several far-shore markets have deeper engineering talent than most near-shore ones.
Why it matters
Far-shore rewards written discipline. Where handovers, specifications, and acceptance criteria are genuinely good, the gap costs little and the cost saving is real. Where they are not, every ambiguity costs a full day, and that overhead usually exceeds the saving.
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Near-shore
Outsourcing to a nearby country with overlapping working hours.
Read the definition ›Overlap hours
How much of your working day you share with the team.
Read the definition ›Offshoring
Moving work to another country, whether nearby or far away.
Read the definition ›Follow-the-sun
Passing work between time zones so it never stops.
Read the definition ›Next step
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