The Los Altos firm-which performs global market research on everything from routers to software for clients including Cisco, HP, and Microsoft-has only 14 full-time employees.But it farms out research from Silicon Valley to India's Evalueserve and to some 5,000 other independent experts in China, the Czech Republic, and South Africa.The above serves as an example of:
A)open-sourcing.
B)in sourcing.
C)farmshoring.
D)home-sourcing.
E)outsourcing.

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The firm is outsourcing its research tasks to Evalueserve in India and to independent experts in various countries, which is a practice of hiring external organizations to perform services or create goods that traditionally were performed in-house by the company's own employees and staff.

The Los Altos Firm-Which Performs Global Market Research on Everything