The high cost for companies to maintain their own infrastructure, high requirements for staff training, and the need to use expensive tools to manage production systems make it necessary to look for alternative forms of work organization. Outsourcing has the greatest application potential and involves delegating non-core functions to qualified specialists. Neither the technological capabilities of service providers, nor the high qualifications of their personnel, nor positive examples of such actions at other companies can serve as a guarantee of the expediency of such a decision. In order to make managerial decisions about delegating some of the functions to external specialists or performing them in-house, scientifically based recommendations are needed. The article reveals a methodology for assessing the effectiveness of outsourcing from the employer’s position. The methodology is formed taking into account the capabilities and potential risks of the company. The methodological approach is based on a balanced system of partial indicators, reduced to an integral one, which makes it possible to take into account the economic and social components of the effectiveness of the solution, which determines the novelty of scientific research. The results of the study can be used when making management decisions on the delegation of non-core functions to external specialists, as well as for the further development of methodological foundations in the labor market.