Offshoring is sometimes about time zones and perceived comfort, not wage savings.

Evidence

Clearly, this example of offshoring is not about saving costs, as the company is hiring in certified personnel and locating them in strategically selected time zones so that the work will typically be performed by radiologists working during their day hours. In addition to its Box I emphasis on quality, it believes that offshoring modular physician services faces behavioural path dependent constraints: that is, it reasons that American PCPs will feel more comfortable offshoring services such as radiology to other western countries than to developing countries such as India. — Georg Schreyögg and Jörg Sydow, The Hidden Dynamics of Path Dependence, 590

Categorization

• CANDY: A radiologist in Zurich reading American night scans is a neat, tweetable illustration of offshoring driven by clocks rather than costs.