Offshoring
Offshoring is outsourcing software work to a distant country, typically with a six-to-twelve-hour time difference. It can deliver excellent work at a low hourly rate, but the time gap turns each clarification into a lost day, and you tend to discover quality issues only after the work is done.
Offshoring is the classic far-distance model: a development team many time zones away, often chosen for the lowest hourly rate on the spreadsheet. It is not inherently bad work; plenty of offshore teams are excellent.
The cost shows up elsewhere. With a large time gap, a one-line question written at 17:00 is read overnight and answered the next day, so momentum leaks away one clarification at a time. And because you only see the work after it lands, a misunderstanding can be a week old before anyone notices. That is the difference nearshoring is designed to remove.
