Asia

 ** Definition and context: **  Companies in the United States are hiring workers in Asian countries to complete the same tasks (engineering, call service, software development) for less money due to a difference in per capita incomes in the two regions.

  “This upheaval will be difficult for many, but it’s ultimately not much different from transitions we’ve weathered before. This is precisely what happened to routine mass production jobs, which moved across the oceans in the second half of the twentieth century. And just as those factory workers had to master a new set of skills and learn how to bend pixels instead of steel, many of today’s knowledge workers will likewise have to command a new set of aptitudes.” (Pink, //A Whole New Mind//) 