Hire or Outsource/Contract?

Pro-Hire Pro-Outsource
  1. Can make life miserable for employees.
  2. Person always available (well, most of the time).
  3. Person is socialized to company.
  4. Extra Pentium computer setting around, gathering dust.
  1. No need to babysit good contractor.
  2. Never any downtime for any reason.
  3. Fresh viewpoint on project.
  4. No need to implement computer/chair sharing program.
Anti-Hire Anti-Outsource
  1. No career ladder available to entice top talent for hire at any price.
  2. Steep learning curve for beginners.
  3. High turnover.
  1. Top talent is not cheap (and vice-versa).
  2. Work methods differ.
  3. Writer may not be available for next project.

Do your own computation!

Download an Excel 97 spreadsheet that you can use to determine hire versus outsource cost differences. To use it in—not for—any cost benefit analysis for any outsourcing decision, just substitute your own base figures where appropriate.

Download the hourly.xls file.

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