With the dramatic growth of global outsourcing, the distinction between nearshore and offshore should be quite clear. But too many people are still referring to all work outsourced outside of the U.S. as 'offshore,' which is incorrect. Outsourcing is often mislabeled as 'offshoring' even at the highest levels of business and government.
It is essential to distinguish offshore and nearshore as two completely distinct outsourcing regions. Offshore and nearshore are not only geographically far apart, but each consists of different costs, labor pools, countries, culture, size, history, languages, agent skills, service delivery, market maturity, and saturation. ...