Don’t do it yourself

How much outsourcing is too much?

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  • Published 20190507
  • ISBN: 9781925773620
  • Extent: 264pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

IT’S FUNNY TO think that a broken gearbox could lead to a physics student folding T-shirts in my lounge room, but that’s the internet for you.

My addiction to outsourcing began when my car gave up the ghost in exactly the wrong place and I gave in to the temptation to hire a little help. But before I knew it, I was onto the hard stuff: rubbish removal, handyman jobs and eventually, to my shame, my clean-laundry pile.

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