When a company hires a third party to perform a specific task or provide a service on its behalf instead of doing it in-house, it is called outsourcing. The organization to which the activity is outsourced performs the outsourced activity. Confidential and sensitive data may be at risk. Economies of scale lead to cost savings (Vernerová et al., 2020). Insourcing, on the other hand, refers to the transfer of projects from external suppliers to people or areas within the company. Many companies use today’s popular term “insourcing” to use their own services and infrastructure to successfully complete work. Building your own workforce to perform tasks that could otherwise be outsourced is like making an investment. Outsourced activities are performed solely on company premises. Private and confidential information will not be disclosed. The cost is low since the company’s existing resources are used (Silva et al., 2019). Many companies use this tactic when they are dissatisfied with the services of an outsourcing provider. You can choose to bring back the outsourced task or function and assign it to a person or department who knows it better. continue…