Such commercial presence enables them to bid for teleradiology contracts that are being outsourced by some EU governments as their European subsidiaries are not subject to outsourcing restrictions on patient data.
Likewise, more manufacturing is being outsourced by multinationals to specialist equipment makers.
Most of our work is outsourced by the government to large interpreting agencies, which have undercut each other and then outsourced the work to specialists.
Exhibit A, revisited in "The Dark Side," is Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, an accused Qaeda commander whose torture was outsourced by the C.I.A. to Egypt.
If we are really serious about low pay, perhaps we should ensure that shame cannot be outsourced, by clamping down on contracting out.
Mamdouh Habib, who was eventually sent to Guantánamo Bay, was outsourced by the US to Egypt, where he said he was "hung by his arms from hooks, repeatedly shocked, nearly drowned and brutally beaten", according to the Washington Post.
Within the UK, responsibility for removing them has been outsourced by the big internet providers to the tiny, little-known IWF charity with a staff of fewer than 20, based in a nondescript business park.
TPG's TNT Logistics operation even does light assembly-work for DaimlerChrysler in America.Some industry analysts reckon that in consumer electronics, the growth of such contract manufacturing, often organised through logistics companies, will lead to over a third of electronics manufacturing being outsourced by 2005.
"We're challenging the washing machine by making it really easy to have clean clothes without the hassle," he says, noting that apps like his are tapping into a broader change in consumer behaviour where more tasks, such as laundry, are outsourced by people who are time-poor.
You might even say marijuana growth has been "outsourced" by the Mexicans to the great state of California, where land is plenty and the labor is cheap.
