If the United States transfers tasks and jobs to other countries where labor and supplies are less expensive, it is called outsourcing. When foreign companies transfer tasks and jobs to companies in the United States, it is a practice called
Reason: Although outsourcing has become politically contentious in recent years amid concerns about jobs being taken by foreign workers, foreign companies transfer tasks and jobs to American companies (a practice known as insourcing) far more frequently than American companies outsource tasks and jobs to foreign countries (a practice known as outsourcing).
