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I've seen the "paying 4x" phenomenon at a former company (a long time ago tho). The external "expert" consultants worked with us for 3+ years, used our equipmen

• onion2k 5y ago
  Companies hire external experts (or "experts") in order to fix hiring problems (can't find the necessary people), or because they find it hard to predict future needs (might only need them for 3 months, or 3 years), or because they don't have the management team in place to manage those people (every person hired is a call on managers to give them work to do, and more admin to do). These are all things that are often well worth paying 4X what it'd cost to employ the staff themselves.
  • Jare 5y ago
    Yeah, I mean it worked. Projects got delivered on time, I assume on budget, and functioning to spec. Lacks in some places were compensated with excesses in others. Some things were not pretty, but there's no denying the place ran like a well oiled machine. I learned a lot there. At the time I thought the in-house knowledge and expertise these people would take with them when they moved elsewhere would be a big loss, but then the company was bought and dissolved into a larger parent, and that knowledge mattered exactly zero.