> If I hire an employee I am constrained by employee-employer regs. Those can sometimes be onerous, Undoubtedly, but compared to hiring through an outsourced c

> If I hire an employee I am constrained by employee-employer regs. Those can sometimes be onerous, Undoubtedly, but compared to hiring through an outsourced company, you do get more control over how these employees are treated, and can thus remove the risk of the operation being run as a sweat shop under your own nose, assuming that's something you wish to care about. > -- are you liable in your state/province/department, or theirs? In most parts of the world you should be able to set up the equivalent of an LLC in order to minimize your risk, though of course, this will mean some extra bureaucracy to deal with.