"Despite the considerable growth in offshoring, some evidence suggests that this trend will not continue in the long term.
On the contrary, in some cases, outsourcing is moving back to domestic markets and many companies are now looking
at ‘insourcing' their operations by internalizing operations that were previously contracted out.
This movement towards
domestic outsourcing, or insourcing, can be termed ‘retrenchment'. The term also refers to the
repatriation of offshored production."
(European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions,
Trends and drivers of change in the knowledge-intensive business services sector: Four scenarios,
European Monitoring Center on Change, 2006, visited 2011-02-22)
