How data entry outsourcing is beneficial?

This begs the question, beneficial to whom?

Please don’t think I mean offense, but in looking at your avatar, and at the women behind you in the picture, I am guessing you are from India.
I am from the US.

Outsourcing helps the receiving economy grow in a particular area, and technology is a growth area even if data entry is not rocket science. The outsourced jobs help the people who get them.

An economy that has high unemployment is not helped by outsourcing jobs, but there are some self-limiting factors. Job scarcity in an economy may reduce job seekers’ wage expectations, eventually returning jobs [at a lower pay level] to the original economy.

The company I work for outsourced for a while, and it generated so many customer complaints that it was actually cheaper to bring it all back to England, even though the wages were several times higher here. The only people it benefits are the people in the ountry to which it outsources. It doesn’t benefit the company’s customers in any way, nor it’s home-based employees. I guess it benefits the accountants, at least in the short term. But the cheap option is almost always the inferior one.

I close friend has an accounting firm and tried the outsourcing experiment for doing client’s taxes. It was a disaster. There were too many data leaks and no recourse when rules were violated. It also ended up taking more time and effort than if they just performed the work themselves. They ended it after one tax season.
The only benefit was to the group that arranged the outsourcing and got the payments. (Maybe some data scammers benefited too, but he does not know that for sure.)

I agree with my fellow jellies above. I’m sorry I mean no disrespect, but there are too few jobs at home to be sending them abroad. There is also the matter of everyone being terrified of identity theft. The one constant of data entry being outsourced by everyone from banks to insurance houses over the last few years is that people’s personal details are no longer private. We, personally speaking, have been getting plagued by phone calls (at all times of the day and night) for months now, and our phone number is unlisted. The caller always knows our address, as well as other details which they should have no access to. Many companies now make it a part of their advertising to state that their call centres are now UK based, because they know of the sheer volume of complaints regarding overseas call centres. So, to answer your question, outsourcing is beneficial to those who get the jobs, but not so much to the company’s customers, or to those who are sitting on unemployment because of the severe lack of jobs.