Outsourcing Mistakes

Outsourcing sounds great. It could be great. However, you have to compare Apples to Apples.

I stumbled on post from an Aussie who had some negative experiences with offshore outsourcing and his analysis of the situation. His analysis married well to my intuition based on experiences in corporate America. The outsource workers are often cheaper on paper, but total cost to the desired output was higher than using onshore labor.

Check out his full post.


The trickiest part is that the onshore labor quality varies WIDELY as well. It may be that offshore beats out bad onshore, but loses to good onshore. "Bad" and "Good" are up to the employer and therein lies all the problems in the world.