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Outsourcing is not a new scheme when it comes to managing huge multinational corporations. Nowadays, business tasks such as customer relations, human resource and accounting are a few of the most commonly outsourced. Most big companies opt to outsource some of their business processes for a myriad of reasons. The most common reason for this business venture is for the main, onshore offices to focus more on the core departments and elements of their businesses.

Going a little way back in time, outsourcing was mostly done as part of the production line for manufacturing specific parts. These parts made from the offshore third party companies were fabricated according to the onshore company’s specifications and quality measures and are consequently put together to assemble the whole product. Engine parts for cars, electronic parts for gadgets as well as clothing are only a few items in this long list of commonly outsourced and assembled goods.

The newer trend for outsourcing has shifted from hard, tangible product parts into business processes that involve different services for the company. Currently, the most widely outsourced business service is customer relations- customer assistance, information, answering and directory services, billing information, even sales. Another service that is effectively outsourced is accounting and quality monitoring.