Background of Online Outsourcing...

Background of Online Outsourcing...

Online outsourcing is the Internet based version of outsourcing. This process is when one department, or indeed a whole area of work, transfers tasks and projects to a third party company.

As they can be easily achieved through the Internet, it is mostly services within IT and marketing that are most often sourced out to a third party. Examples of such tasks could be programming and web design, multi-media
production, logo design or search engine optimization not forgetting services like translations, research and editorial work. In this case, online platforms can serve to simplify the process of attaining and assigning projects.

With off shoring, a variant of outsourcing, respective tasks can be situated in another country. This could be both business tasks or indeed business processes.

With near shoring, off shoring also has its own variant. While the former relocates tasks to a country usually very far afield on another continent, the latter is, as the name suggests, relocation closer to home.

Home shoring, as a variant of outsourcing, describes the location of third party services which are not undertaken by companies but by individuals working from home. This form of working is also known as Home-Office or often telecommuting.