Comment by spaetzleesser

If you manage one person you get all the overhead of managing people but only the productivity of one person. Same for offshoring. My company has people in India so we often get one or two persons added to the team. This produces enormous overhead due difficulty of communication over a 12h time difference but we still get omit the work of two people. It would be way more efficient to have ten people there so the overhead is worth it.