A company runs a three time-zone based offshore team, at $200K. Meetings were always late. Check code that's been accumulated. The release of the product was delayed for six months. That one decision had a huge impact on their chief technology officer's thinking about outsourcing. That lesson should not be the one that businesses that are considering outsourcing will learn. These days... https://oscorm.com/blog/offshore-vs-nearshore-development-key-differences