For long years after the IT boom began application development was restricted mainly to USA but after the slump of the mid 90s, the IT industry in US was forced to outsource work to other countries like India where work could be done for far less a cost than back home. This ushered in the new era of outsourcing. Initially application development outsourcing was avoided and only testing jobs were outsourced. Testing jobs included the proofreading of the entire coding and then finding the flaws or bugs if any and then fixing or debugging the program.

If you are the owner, operator or manager of a business enterprise in the 21st century, you may be giving some consideration to the possibility of outsourcing certain operational functions. In this regard, you may be wondering what are the advantages and risks of outsourcing. Through this brief article, a discussion will be presented pertaining to the advantages and risks of outsourcing.

Is outsourcing desirable or undesirable? Well a big debate has been and still is going on across the globe where people are being affected by it. And because of the two views we find protagonists for both. While business enterprises support outsourcing, employee unions and the politicians often oppose the same.