Engagement models
Nearshoring
Outsourcing to a country close enough to share your working day.
Definition
Moving work to a country in or near your own time zone rather than to the cheapest available location. The saving is smaller than far-shore alternatives and the working relationship is closer, because questions get answered the same day rather than the next one.
Why it matters
The honest framing is a trade, not a win: you pay more than you would in a far-shore market and you get back a shared working day. Whether that is worth it depends almost entirely on how iterative your work is. Highly specified, batch-style work often does fine far-shore.
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Near-shore
Outsourcing to a nearby country with overlapping working hours.
Read the definition ›Far-shore
Outsourcing to a location six or more hours from your working day.
Read the definition ›Offshoring
Moving work to another country, whether nearby or far away.
Read the definition ›Overlap hours
How much of your working day you share with the team.
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