In my experience, offshoring is decided on entirely at the C level or just below it by managers wanting to save money and believing they can do so this way. Th

In my experience, offshoring is decided on entirely at the C level or just below it by managers wanting to save money and believing they can do so this way. They want to believe so hard that it will work that they'll mostly ignore warnings from the people whose jobs will change because of the offshoring. That's just the nature of many businesses... if managers can't see a good way to make themselves look good, they start contemplating things like this. Usually, cognitive bias keeps them from putting the brakes on. The kicker is that for some companies offshoring works well. It all depends on what their needs are and whether they can efficiently adjust to the new scheme of things. Of course, if it happens to work, managers tend to take that as validation of their point of view. It's like using "the cloud" for all your IT. For some applications putting all your data on someone else's computer works very well, and for others it's impossible. Whether your company can migrate to the cloud depends on what you do and how you do it, and I have yet to work at a company with enough self knowledge to make a decision based on that ahead of time.