While it can be easy to look at outsourcing payroll duties as an extra expense you could do without, this is a rather simplistic way of viewing it, and does nothing to explore or explain the amount of money that a small business can save in the long term if payroll is outsourced. In fact, when you examine outsourcing in closer detail – in particular, payroll – many of the direct costs associated with processing payroll internally, can be massively reduced when working with an outside provider. Let’s look at this in closer detail: