I’m doing some research on outsourcing. There are 2 surveys:
- 90 second survey for businesses, buyers and potential buyers of outsourced services.
- 60 second survey for subcontractors, freelancers and all suppliers of outsourced services.
The purpose of this is to find out what attitude and experience people from different perspectives have on outsourcing, and to get some basic statistics on it. The results will be published, if you enter your email address on the survey form I’ll inform you when that happens (entering email is entirely optional, and I guarantee no spam).
The surveys are very short – so please take 60-90 seconds to complete either (or both if both apply to you!).
The results of this survey will help please take a moment to fill one of them out.
Thank you!
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2 really quick surveys for anyone interested in Outsourcing (esp. freelancers & service buyers) http://bit.ly/ugBRu Please RT – thanks!
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Good subject, whenever I’ve tried outsourcing I have find I spend so much time trying to get the provider’s skill level to where I want it that it’s usually a waste of time.
I suppose it depends a lot on the level you can afford to pay, but at my level, outsourcing hasn’t proved itself worthwhile yet – though of course my head knows it’s worthwhile, just hasn’t worked out for me.
Be good to see the results!
Form filled and I wait for you to share the results.
I think anyone who does not outsource or consider it is crazy, IMHO. It is so easy to do and check, it can take a bit of time finding the right people though.
Just filled out the form. Very interesting topic. I often outsource tasks that would take me a lot of time to finish and where my expertise isn’t as good. E.g. I have some programming skills but a professional works 10x faster giving me more time to work on task that I excell at.
I run a software development outsourcing business and I can tell you that at least now during the crises the nb 1 reason why companies outsource is to reduce costs. Programmer wages in less developed countries like mine can be up to 10 times smaller then in the US. It can be very profitable both for them (that get a cheap product and the same quality – if they choose a partner carefully of course) and me (a steady amount work/clients is good for business).