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I wonder if you can do a bit more for clients and take the money and use it to hire more people doing outsourced work.

If you can pay for 2-3 hours of outsourced work for every hour of client work, doesn't that effectively 'buy' more time?

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I guess it would depend on the type of client services you do. We do specialized product design and development, and that's not something you can easily outsource.

I think the idea is to replace other types of work with fewer hours of client work. Eg you can get some big wins by hiring a personal assistant and cleaning service to handle stuff on the "fixed personal commitments side", outsource some of the product work, etc.

Then you throw in a time cost variable for project management, people problems, quality control, hiring / firing, etc etc etc.

Obviously whether it were worth it would be situational dependent, but there would definitely be an added time cost.

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