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Online outsourcing is the business process of contracting third-party providers (often overseas) to supply products or services which are delivered and paid for via the internet.


Background

Online outsourcing is the internet-based version of
outsourcing Outsourcing is an agreement in which one company hires another company to be responsible for a planned or existing activity which otherwise is or could be carried out internally, i.e. in-house, and sometimes involves transferring employees and ...
. This process is when one department, or indeed a whole area of work, transfers tasks and projects to a third party company. Examples of such tasks could be programming,
web development Web development is the work involved in developing a website for the Internet (World Wide Web) or an intranet (a private network). Web development can range from developing a simple single static page of plain text to complex web applications ...
and
web design Web design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites. The different areas of web design include web graphic design; user interface design (UI design); authoring, including standardised code a ...
, multi-media production, logo design or
search engine optimization Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the quality and quantity of website traffic to a website or a web page from search engines. SEO targets unpaid traffic (known as "natural" or "organic" results) rather than dire ...
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
offshoring Offshoring is the relocation of a business process from one country to another—typically an operational process, such as manufacturing, or supporting processes, such as accounting. Usually this refers to a company business, although state gove ...
, a variant of outsourcing, respective tasks can be situated in another country. This could be both business tasks or indeed business processes. With
nearshoring Outsourcing is an agreement in which one company hires another company to be responsible for a planned or existing activity which otherwise is or could be carried out internally, i.e. in-house, and sometimes involves transferring employees and ...
, offshoring 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. Homeshoring, as a variant of outsourcing, describes the location of third party services which are not undertaken by companies but by
remote work Remote work, also called work from home (WFH), work from anywhere, telework, remote job, mobile work, and distance work is an employment arrangement in which employees do not commute to a central place of work, such as an office building, ware ...
ers. Through outsourcing a company can relieve itself of secondary tasks and concentrate on core issues, thus improving its efficiency. Or as Peter Drucker expressed it, "Do what you can do best and Outsource the rest." According to Deloitte’s research, the primary reason to outsource jobs is to save costs (59%). The second reason is to focus on core competencies (57%). 47% of companies outsource to solve capacity issues.


See also

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E-lancing E-lancing, also known as e-labour, is the practice of taking freelancing work through online job-offers. E-lancing websites operate as hubs where employers place tasks, which freelancers from around the world bid for. Some e-lancing websites act as ...
* Virtual assistance


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