What Is Outsourcing: How Businesses Contract Work Across Borders

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Define outsourcing and explain why businesses hire specialized external companies or international teams to handle specific operations.

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Global Connections: Outsourcing, Digital Networks, and Shared Ideas

4th Grade · Social-studies · US-WI-SS

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Examine how global outsourcing, telecommunication networks, and digital platforms enable international business collaboration and the rapid worldwide spread of culture, knowledge, and language.

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SS.Geog3.b.mWisconsin Social Studies Standards · 4th Grade

Analyze spatial patterns of social and economic development in a variety of regions in the world. Identify how people, products, and ideas move between places (e.g., internet commerce, outsourcing).