Reading through the threads it seems as though the main benefit of outsourcing is being able to be more productive and save money. I do understand that concern. With any business you have to maintain a profit or you will fold. Having on site employees decreases your profitability. With having even one on site employee, costs can increase to 75% more than what actual wages are.

Let me explain. If an employee makes an $39,000 in a year (on a 40 hour work week), by the time benefits, payroll taxes, administrative costs (recruiting, hiring, training, record maintenance, severance pay..etc), equipment and supplies, bonuses, overtime, and additional rent of space, is all taken into consideration, the total annual cost for that one employee jumps to $69,500.

Getting back to outsourcing, I have a couple of comments to make; thus the thread title. Why not hire people that contract their work out in the US. Granted they cost more per hour, but they only bill for hours worked. A business then cuts out all down time costs, and all the other hassles mentioned in the paragraph above. The people that are able to handle the tasks associated with running the business are technically known as executive assistants. Here in the US we have people that do this out of their own offices and occur any costs of running that office. They are formally known as Virtual Assistants or a VA. The only item that the business, contracted to the Virtual Assistant, pays for are the actual hours it takes to complete the project. With using a Virtual Assistant, a business is able to take the same profits they would get from outsourcing outside of the US, and be more productive. Plus the money stays in the US to help the economy grow.

That's a fair thought, there should be more of in-sourcing then outsourcing.
Only issue here would be that , very few would be willing to work there at lower prices, if they get a pay of about say $50 k annually why would they do the contracting jobs.

And small business owners with offices would no way be able to afford giving it away at cheap, finally they end up importing human resource from other countries and source the work in their office itself.

So it becomes one and the same , back to step one.
you outsource or get work done in your own office yet you have to spend funds on your employees.

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Every talk about outsourcing is ment to same $, No there are many firm who are looking in a different way, yes I say Cost is one of the factor but there are few other factors like, Skilled people who are in other countries, People who are willing to work for long hours and the most important to take any change with in the firm.

yes that is good idea

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why not outsource in other countries..

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Offshore Outsourcing is now a widely known compelling business strategy. Lots of Employee Leasing Companies are very competitive including Prime Outsourcing

If virtual office can resolve the issue's, then why didn't the business Guru's never thought about? May be in the future, the VA concept might be accepted if the guyz in the respective countries are willing to compromise and put the same effort. Guyz can be paid on hourly basis, but how many hours are they willing to work?

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