Systems and methods for locally outsourcing work

A method for scheduling local and remote resources to provide local outsourcing, comprising:

• a. providing one or more consultants in a local office within a predetermined radius from a client office location that allows a client to visit the local office to provide timely local interactions if a trip to the client location is needed;
• b. providing one or more consultants in a remote office to support the client from another country;
• c. receiving requests for work from the client in a resource planning application;
• d. determining tasks that require local interaction and selecting one or more consultants from the local office and otherwise assigning tasks to consultants in another country to reduce cost;
• e. assigning and optimizing consultants in the resource planning application for:
• i. guaranteeing that a consultant will be available at the local office within a first predetermined period on request;
• ii. guaranteeing that the customer can visit the local office within a second predetermined period on request;
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• iii. guaranteeing that one or more consultants will be available at the customer's premise within a third predetermined period on request.