Domestic hiring, emerging outsourcing hubs gain ground in global market: Deel
CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES — More and more companies are discovering the advantages of using an international workforce strategy, which is why the list of countries that offer outsourcing services is constantly changing. The latest data from Deel’s Global Hiring Report shows significant changes in companies’ approach to the international recruitment process: some countries are becoming popular for certain positions.
Domestic hiring rises alongside global recruitment
Although the trend of hiring international workers is still strong, Deel’s report shows that there is a growing tendency for companies to prefer recruiting locally.
In 2024, domestic hiring—that is, the practice of recruiting employees from within the same country—increased by 104%, while cross-border or international hiring increased by 42%. This change indicates that companies now prefer to hire from nearby locations while still retaining the distributed work model, and as of 2024, 82% of workers on Deel’s network were remote.
When it comes to international hiring, some companies prefer to work with candidates who are in the same time zone. For instance, when conducting cross-border hiring in Great Britain, 50% of the time, all the hires were in the same time zone, and 41% of Germany’s international hires were within one hour of their employer’s time zone.
“Whether or not you’re returning to an office, workers within your time zone offer companies more options to work synchronously,” said Alan Price, Director of Talent Acquisition at Deel. “Deel’s product teams, for example, often sit near their collaborators.”
Emerging markets active in specialized roles
The Philippines, Argentina, and India have become the most frequent worker nations on the Deel platform after the United States. This is in line with other industry findings that have ranked these countries as leading outsourcing countries in 2025.
The report also notes a rise in the need for accounting professionals as the demand for accountants increased by 74% in 2024, which was greater than that of software engineers (22%). This is because more companies need help with managing their global workforce and have reported a shortage of accounting talent.
While compressing these trends, companies are shifting their outsourcing practices as the global outsourcing market grows, and the IT services outsourcing market is expected to reach $807.91 billion by 2025.
