Yes. They hire devs from the Midwest instead of major metro areas.
The term was coined during the Obama era[0] and I've seen it shopped around by a few US dev shops recently. It's also called "near shoring" or "rural outsourcing."
> Yes. They hire devs from the Midwest instead of major metro areas.
Which is great, IMO. It's time we opened the doors to more talented developers across the country rather than requiring everyone to move to a few big cities to get the best jobs.
Yes, compensation will come down relative to those big cities, but it will still be coming up for those devs outside of major metro areas (otherwise they wouldn't be taking the jobs, obviously)
I've heard "near-shoring" before but always in the context of hiring workers from Mexico or other countries further south that share time-zones with the US.
The term "insourcing" was used in the movie "The Campaign" to refer to bringing cheap Chinese labor to the US and paying them similar wages and offer same working conditions as in China to save on shipping costs.
Unless it's taken on a new meaning, insourcing is just the opposite of outsourcing, i.e. using the companies own workforce and resources for a project.
The term was coined during the Obama era[0] and I've seen it shopped around by a few US dev shops recently. It's also called "near shoring" or "rural outsourcing."
[0]: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/01/11/everyth...