When done right outsourcing has the advantage of someone else doing the hiring for you in an environment with a much larger and more available candidate pool.

Unless you are in the technical support business it may make sense to outsource it to a company that is more agile in scale-ability, quality controls, technology deployment and infrastructure. Cost of creating a business process unit is at least 50% greater than the direct labor cost.

Outsourcing provider assumes the legal, operational and financial risks in large part leaving you more competitive and lean

Outsourcing provider pool their resources and provide better equipment, capabilities, supervision and control by spreading the costs over a larger number of clients. This is specially beneficial to smaller companies which would not be able to compete as well.

Existing infrastructure of outsourcing companies significantly reduces deployment time allowing for a much faster realization of benefits.

By outsourcing you leverage the outsourcing providers research, security infrastructure, HR department, IT Support thereby reducing the amount of infrastructure investments to be made.

Outsourcing allows for fixed costs to become variable and capital costs to become regular expenses. This create the financial benefit of being able to write of cost that may otherwise have to be capitalized and then depreciated.