As any entrepreneur will tell you, you have to spend money to make money – but if the amount you spend exceeds the amount you make, you don't need an accountant to explain the result. How do you slash your operational and human resources costs while still maintaining your business's essential IT functions? By outsourcing some or all of your technology operations to the Austin IT managed services team at Gravity Systems. Here's how outsourcing your IT can help you keep costs under control:

1. A smaller payroll – The more salaried employees you must add to your IT department, the fatter your payroll budget line gets, eating up more and more of your total expenditures even before you've earned that next (or first) dollar. Those employees also add taxes and benefits to your baggage. Outsourcing much of that IT to a service provider helps you keep your payroll under control.

2. Lower facility overhead – It only makes sense that the fewer IT staffers and equipment you keep in your facility, the less facility you actually need. IT outsourcing can therefore allow you to downsize your current operational overhead (from building rental to utility costs) or minimize increases in overhead as your enterprise grows and expands.

3. Right-sized services – Permanent employees typically draw a salary based on a fixed number of weekly hours – no matter how many hours of work they actually performed. If your IT employees spend an inordinate amount of their office time throwing pencils into the ceiling tiles, consider going with outsourced services instead. You can purchase the exact amount of IT work you need as you need it, scaling that workload up to suit your evolving needs so you're never under-staffed.

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