[aaronchall]

Offshoring is no panacea, it's become a fairly efficient market, and whatever free lunch was there is no longer. Companies that were trying to outsource to save on wages or capitalize on increased productivity are not getting those results: "We find no significant change in average wages or in total factor productivity measures for offshoring firms." (http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/ifdp/2014/files/if...)

It's increasingly obvious there are no gains from offshoring unless you have other more compelling reasons (e.g. 24 hour/global support, shortage of local talent pool, global availability, etc...)

[jaddison]

I completely agree.