Although offshoring has some of the features of arbitrage, it differs in an important respect. In offshoring, the “commodity” subject to arbitrage is labor. In a true arbitrage situation, the commodity’s location does not change the nature of the commodity. This is why, for example, price differences in gold subject to arbitrage are simply fluctuations due to market functioning. But it makes a big difference where labor is located. The whole point of offshoring jobs is precisely that we don’t want to move laborers from India or China to the United States, because then we would have to pay them prevailing U. S. wages.  For offshoring to work, we must take advantage of a social context with prevailing lower wages. Offshoring is in fact a new ethical problem brought about by the ability of information technology to make information available at any location. By the use of Austin Translation Services we can take advantage of social contexts with prevailing lower wages when the relevant features of the job can be performed great distances away.I will consider three potentially ethically relevant aspects of offshoring: The loss of higher-wage jobs in developed countries; the use of child and sweatshop labor in low-wage countries; and substandard customer and technical service in those countries.All the normal ethical considerations for outsourcing continue to apply when the outsourcee is a continent away. These include due diligence on the part of Cleveland Translation Services professionals and managers to ensure that outsourcing will provide net benefits for the organization and its stakeholders. The primary benefit for offshoring should be to save personnel costs with at least equal quality of work. A major concern both with “regular” outsourcing and offshoring is the separability of offshored work. If constant feedback between the companies is needed, neither offshoring nor outsourcing is a good option. It is also not appropriate to outsource strategic applications, the long-term reliability and quality of the outsourcer is still important, and oversight needs to remain with the outsourcing company.  When these considerations are not taken into account, there are problems. Gartner Group estimates that fully half of offshore projects fail to deliver anticipated savings.  For offshoring, English language skills and knowledge of cultural and legal practices are also important.  Therefore, it’s important to develop a strong relationship with a Seattle Translation Services company.  Also, unless responses are highly structured, offshoring service calls can cost companies customers.  We will consider later whether substandard offshored customer and technical service raises other ethical problems.