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Ethics Behind Offshoring

Outsourcing has become a business standard in the US. Specifically outsourcing offshore, to countries where labor is not only cheaper but also abundant. There are those who question the ethics behind outsourcing and offshoring, however, it seems that offshoring is in fact quite ethical and helps those in impoverished countries. Alsbridge, the Independent Advisors on Outsourcing, Shared Services and Offshoring, air their views on the ethics of offshoring in a new report that explains why offshoring could eventually be construed as a badge of social corporate responsibility.

According to the report ?Offshoring: Exploitation or Emancipation??, offshoring is not necessarily the example of destructive global capitalism that its critics portray it to be. In fact, at a time when shareholders and stakeholders are increasingly insistent on social responsibility, offshoring actually has some impeccable ethical credentials. In retaliation to arguments that offshoring exploits workers in developing worlds, the report claims that the evolution of a global services industry is providing developing economies with a new route to development and technology transfer.

It is driving positive changes in infrastructure, law, and even society ? as some women?s groups point towards the emancipation of women in traditional societies. Furthermore, the report informs the reader that offshoring is opening the door for employment and transforming people into professionals. And, although there is a startling pay gap with the western world, service sector jobs offered by multinationals typically offer the best employment conditions and opportunities available in developing countries.