Comments on: Outsourcing Myths: cost advantage

By: Nick Krym

Nick Krym — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:07:09 +0000

Ken, I believe that when you were checking the numbers you did not consider benefits and other elements that affect monthly rates. In any case these numbers are here not to test my knowledge of math (or MS excel ability to calculate), instead I put them here to illustrate that cost advantages of outsourcing should be treated with grain of salt.

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:32:55 +0000

Table and calculations for Monthly Cost is completely wrong. So how you can believe person who dont know simple math ?

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