Companies continue to pursue offshoring aggressively, moving operations to locations in the world where they can be conducted at lower cost, either by third parties or by their own efforts.
Between 2005 and 2008, the number of U.S. companies with an offshore-outsourcing strategy more than doubled, according to Duke Offshoring Research Network's fifth annual report on offshoring trends. And very few U.S. companies plan to relocate activities back to the United States, the report claims.
