Meaning & use
homeshoring
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Meaning
noununcountablebusiness
The practice of a company hiring people in its own country to do work such as customer service from their homes instead of from an office or an overseas center.
Grammar: No article or plural: homeshoring is growing, not a homeshoring.
Patterns
- move to homeshoring
- homeshoring of something
The call center switched to homeshoring so agents could work from their living rooms.
Homeshoring lets firms hire skilled staff in rural areas.
Some companies prefer homeshoring to outsourcing because quality is easier to control.
Common combinations
- shift to homeshoring
- The firm announced a shift to homeshoring.
- homeshoring model
- A homeshoring model reduces office rent.
- homeshoring agents
- Homeshoring agents answer calls from their kitchens.
- rise of homeshoring
- The rise of homeshoring changed the job market.
Synonyms and how they differ
- remote work
- Remote work is the general idea of working away from the office, while homeshoring is a business strategy replacing overseas staff.
- telecommuting
- Telecommuting describes an employee's own arrangement, rather than a company-wide sourcing policy.
- onshoring
- Onshoring only means bringing work back to the home country and does not require workers to be at home.
Opposites
Word family
- offshoring noun
- moving work to another country
- onshoring noun
- bringing work back to the home country
- outsourcing noun
- paying another firm to do work
- homeshore verb
- to use workers in their homes in the same country
Commonly confused: homeshoring or offshoring?
homeshoring vs offshoring
Offshoring sends work abroad, whereas homeshoring keeps it inside the country with staff working from home.
Practice
The company ended its overseas call center and chose homeshoring, so the agents now ___.
Choose one answer.
Homeshoring means domestic workers doing the job from home. The other options describe offshoring or unrelated arrangements.
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