I have looked at my timetracker stats, and for the past month I have spent 31 hours on Upwork (creating job posts,inviting people,sorting out through writers,checking samples,sending out content to do, reviewing it,sending feedback,chasing up people,asking for revises,preparing guidelines, answering questions etc..)
With 31 hours of time spent, I have got back 34 articles for my newest project.
Then...I spend at least another 1hour on average for each article to prepare the initial brief / go through it/improve it /rewrite intros for best performance/optimize layouts etc..
So as a Minimum I have spent 2hours per article Just to find someone to write it & Then edit it..Probably it's closer to 2.5hours per article when all is said&done.
It takes me around 1.5-4 hours to write a decent article myself depending on length/topic...
At the end of the day, I feel I should just write the content myself as it feels like I'm not even saving any time outsourcing the content.
The sad thing is, I'm NOT new to outsourcing content and have got around 300 articles done during the past year, I know the drill,what to look out for and try to waste as little time as possible.