Pros and Cons

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The savings from outsourcing are wasted by the consequent problems of managing quality


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outsourcing indeed improves business quality
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  • with outsourcing, firms can be more specialized in their distinctive core competencies
  • outsourcing facilitates business restructuring and improvement 
     

  
it is always argued that outsourcing does serious damage to the quality of customer service and technical support
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  • outsourced customer service/technical support overseas workers, which are mainly from developing countries, usually do not reach the language standard required 
     

  
Outsourcing increases the quality of product given cost (productivity)
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  • Outsourcing lowers costs substantially 
     

  
Quality levels of outsourced tasks are lower than where they have remained "in-house"
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Outsourced staffs usually deliver a lower quality of service to customers
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  • if service quality is too low the company can change to another supplier of outsourced services