Originally Posted by Roald

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.