Offshore Outsourcing

When looking through the lens of a business stakeholder or entrepreneur, one may suggest that outsourcing keeps their business competitive and allows them to cut costs where they need to the most. They may then argue that the boons outsourcing provides to businesses has a trickle-down effect that ends up benefiting American workers in the long run.

Protectionists and middle-class American workers may argue that outsourcing negatively impacts workers domestically due to lower wages, mass displacement from jobs, and difficulty replacing jobs for displaced workers.

Another perspective of this debate on outsourcing may argue that building skills for American workers is paramount to securing jobs domestically, so attempting to stifle outsourcing itself is unnecessary.