In-House
Categories: Company Management
When we take care of something “in-house,” we deal with it within our organization and don’t hire outside help. If we have an in-house legal counsel, we have lawyers working specifically for our company. If we have in-house counseling services, we have behavioral professionals on our business’s payroll. If we sell furniture but also have an in-house financing department, our customers don’t have to go elsewhere to finance paying for their new wares. If we have an in-house pastry chef, we’ve got someone on staff making fresh pastries every day. Which is awesome.
There are some definite pros to handling things in-house. It can often be cheaper to have someone on staff than it is to just hire them when we need them, especially when we’re talking about corporate lawyers and stuff. Also, when people are part of our staff and not outside consultants, we tend to have more control over them. Not “control” like in a weird Milla Jojovich-Ben Stiller Zoolander kind of way, but more like…they’re part of our company’s culture. They work with us every day. They know us and our corporate values and are therefore probably more likely to work in what we believe are our business’s best interests.
And if we don’t like how they handle our biz, we can always fire them. So that’s nice, too.