Hire your own IT person or keep using an external partner
Under ten employees an in-house IT person usually has too little to do. Above twenty an external party slowly gets more expensive than a permanent hire. In between it becomes a question about working style.
Try this first
- 1Count the hours you or a colleague currently spend on IT questions, that is the lower bound of the load an IT hire would absorb.
- 2Ask an external partner for a fixed service contract quote, not ad-hoc, otherwise costs are not comparable.
- 3Cost an in-house IT hire on full employer charges and workspace, not only gross salary, that gets you closer to the real all-in price.
- 4Judge whether your IT questions are technical enough for a full-time hire, or whether they are scattered across disciplines.
- 5Account for the fact that an in-house person also takes leave and gets sick, a one-person team is a single point of failure.
- 6Consider a hybrid model, a part-time hire with external support during peaks or complex work.
When to bring us in
If you doubt the calculation or the external quotes are hard to compare, Vectel can give a second opinion and help compare on a like-for-like basis.
See also
- First IT setup as a freelancer, what do you actually needNot everything at once. One laptop, a mailbox on your own domain, a password manager, a backup. That covers the first year.
- Hiring your first employee, what IT to arrange before day oneLaptop, account, mailbox, access to the right folders. In that order, not all of it at 9 a.m. on day one.
- Moving to a new office, IT checklistInternet and power have the longest lead times. Plan at least three months out, not three weeks.
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