ATHENS, Ga. -- Outsourcing by U.S. companies remains unusual, with most firms surveyed in a recent study declining the opportunity.
Enterprise Systems, which released the survey Friday, surveyed professionals from 744 organizations in such industries as advertising, financial services, manufacturing, retail and telecommunications.
Of survey respondents that do outsource work, more than 70 percent do so with other U.S. companies, not non-U.S. companies.
Other findings of the survey are:
-- The most common size of an outsourcing project is under $100,000;
-- The most popular contract length is one year or less;
-- The majority of respondents who did outsource said no positions were eliminated as a result, and
-- The companies that did outsource and also fire workers report that as many as 22.6 percent of such workers either transferred elsewhere in the company or were able to obtain a position with the new service provider.
