But now India hears footsteps: China, the Philippines, Hungary, the Czech Republic and several Latin American countries are luring offshore outsourcing jobs as well.

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Many H-1Bs are issued to offshore outsourcing companies, many of them from India, which critics say have a business model based on sending foreign workers to the U.S. to learn jobs and then moving them overseas.

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The offshore-outsourcing business is unpopular with most Americans, particularly those who have seen their jobs reading X-rays, analyzing data or answering customer queries shipped overseas.

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But he is outsourcing and moving offshore.

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Trying to save their companies, the old businesses' leaders withdrew to handling large but unprofitable outsourcing contracts with which offshore companies wouldn't compete.

FORBES: The accepted wisdom that the customer is king is all wrong.

Today even small companies can achieve 95% scale efficiency by outsourcing to large vendors, either domestically or offshore.

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