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by Terretta 1966 days ago
In the 00s, we made a good living stepping in for U.S. clients to fix boondoggles from primarily U.S. consultancies and India consultancies. Through that experience, we reached by and large the same regional conclusions, and think they hold largely true today.

Canada is not mentioned in the article but should be, as well as Nigeria, Ghana, and the like.

I recommend figure out first how to be productive and secure with local work from home, then how to remain productive with multi-timezone distributed teams, and only then consider near- and off- shoring but in a dedicated not staff-aug model.

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Thank you for your comments. We shared only own our experience so talked about countries where we outsourced our software development. To date, we have two offices - in Dallas and Ukraine. For years, we worked remotely so we have in place all systems and processed. We are also a product company so we decided to set up our own office. But for a few years, we used a dedicated team model