Body shopping is the practice of consultancy firms recruiting information technology workers in order to contract their services out on short-term basis. Regarded as legitimate consultancy by both the companies that practice it and by the people employed, body shopping is disparaged by those IT services companies that assert that they provide real services (such as software development) rather than the "sham" of merely farming out professionals to overseas companies.
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