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Even if you hire IT staff, how much of it is really under your own control? Do you really control your IT staff more than you control an outsourcing firm?
by briansmith 17y ago
Even if you hire IT staff, how much of it is really under your own control? Do you really control your IT staff more than you control an outsourcing firm?
- jacquesm 17y agoI'd say yes. They have a direct stake in the well being of the company. A free or nearly free email service provider does not. You can't outsource responsibility. People working for you have a contract with you, and a detailed list of their responsibilities. I'd trust them a lot more than some large company providing a similar service for free or a really small fee. The incentives are completely different as is the relationship.
- Retric 17y agoIf you have ~250 employees you are stuck in the black hole where you can't directly higher top tier talent to handle email, but you start to need actual infrastructure. Paying Google 1250$ a month is probably the best you can reasonably do without paying ~10x that for single competent staff, HW, software, and a significant support contract.
- spot 17y agogmail has a contract too, it's called an SLA. why should j-random business trust the part-time IT guy hired from craigslist more than the engineers at google?