The hybrid model, with companies controlling key resources and outsourcing others to the cloud, has been a popular topic with many of the big tech companies, like Hewlett Packard.

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With this creative model replacing the costly overhead of traditional business process outsourcing, workers are assured a higher wage.

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This growing adoption of outsourcing services is seen as a first step toward moving to a cloud-based model, as companies become more comfortable with the concept of remote services delivery.

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Many H-1Bs are issued to offshore outsourcing companies, many of them from India, which critics say have a business model based on sending foreign workers to the U.S. to learn jobs and then moving them overseas.

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