MF: could use review/light revision; tough to have 2.17 SI labs back to back
On this page, you will consider the ways that technology enables long-distance working relationships.
Outsourcing is paying other companies to perform tasks or provide services at a lower price than it costs to hire employees to do them. Companies often outsource certain tasks to other companies that may (sometimes) be in other countries where people are paid less. Technology has made outsourcing easier. But technology companies often outsource things like janitorial services, in part so they can say things like "All our employees have excellent health benefits." (... But the janitors aren't employees, so they don't count.)
Sometimes individuals, not just companies, outsource parts of their lives. Search for articles to read about personal outsourcing companies and people who use them. For example: Average Joes, Janes Outsourcing Tasks (CBS News). You can also learn about Amazon's Mechanical Turk, a forum that pays humans to do tasks that computers cannot do. They call them ''Human Intelligence Tasks'' (HITs); people who perform these tasks successfully are generally paid very low amounts.