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Originally Posted by mineistaken
Thats interesting discussion.
Outsourced employee:
1. WAY smaller salary
2. (Sometimes) no or less taxes [lets not discuss this, number 1 and 3 are enough]
3. no office space expenses, (and no toilet expenses  )
So you save a lot.
But of course if that employee is in the office he (usually) does more work. Question is how much more he does? For instance all in all 2 outsourced employees could cost same as 1 in house employee. So that in house employee must do twice as much as any of those outsourced. Does he do that much more work? |
We used outsourcing services a few times for grunt work. For the projects we do its more efficient to have all people around at the same time. No waiting for replies on emails or calls and no time zones to worry about. Being able to walk up to the people working on something is worth much more to me than the few euros we would save on the salary/office space.
Besides that I would not allow anyone to work on our backend system (as a dev) or give access to our backend if he wasnt an in-house employee. Too much at stake here ;)
For easy tasks which need little communication sure outsource it, for (bigger) projects I prefer in-house people only.