We’ve talked about outsourcing quite a bit recently on the blog. And it’s no mystery why. Amongst all that’s been talked about, I thought it would be a nice change of pace and break down a list of those top jobs that should definitely be outsourced for the good, growth, and prosperity of your company.
A Reminder
Before we delve into it, let’s cover our basics. Outsourcing is the practice of hiring a party outside a company to perform services or create goods that were traditionally performed in-house by the company’s own employees and staff. In today’s world, it’s usually done online and internationally, though traditional outsourcing still exists.
Accounting
One of the most common areas that get outsourced nowadays is anything having to do with accounting, and the reason for such is simple. Accounting isn’t intrinsic to a company’s production processes, but it’s nonetheless necessary.
A pizza company doesn’t need accountants to make pizzas; it requires them to keep functioning as a company. Therefore, outsourcing this outlying part of the process streamlines everything into better functionality.
But the benefits don’t stop there, according to Yahoo, outsourcing accounting can be a good way of assuring expertise on the job. By outsourcing, you can get your pick of the top professionals in the field for the adequate wage point you’re looking for. By ensuring the quality of the job you’re hiring for, you ensure the quality of the end product: benefit for your company.
Additionally, according to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiner’s study released in 2012, the most common victims of fraud are privately owned small businesses with less than 100 employees and an astounding median fraud amount of $147,000.
This is because most small companies don’t have access to a controller or CFO who could look at the KPI and metrics that show abnormal activity in the transactional and billing data. This can be avoided by hiring outsourced accountants from offshore, who are certified in the pertinent activities and away from anything shady.
Data Entry
Clerical jobs have transitioned from typewriter to internet-based employment. That’s no surprise. But this shift makes it all the easier to offshore those data tagging, coordinating, time-consuming jobs to personnel that will ask but for a fraction of what the local workforce would in wages, with the added benefit of having a virtual team that will take no office space, freeing you from additional costs and responsibilities.
Just like above, by doing this, you ensure that a team of specialized personnel will be undertaking the tasks you shift off, making the operation more streamlined, efficient, and less costly.
As I already mentioned, by maintaining a virtual workspace, you stay under the security of our new post-pandemic way of life; no conglomeration of 50 people under one office. Instead, the team can be composed of members working from home under a single direction. LinkedIn provides us with a short article all on outsourcing data entry jobs, worth a look if you’re looking to do this yourself.
Customer Support and Call Centers
Possibly the mother of all outsourcing, call centers have been offshored for decades. It’s become almost a staple of culture and work-life itself. The reasons for this stay the same as we’ve been mentioning: Reduced costs that lead to more efficiency in both results and the balance at the end of the month while ensuring that top personnel will be performing the services.
But there’s an added benefit, besides the lower costs, that you profit from a world-spanning workforce. You won’t be limited by the number of people or job seekers in your area; instead, anyone in the world is in the game, which means you can get started more quickly.
This is extra positive since, while these types of jobs don’t require a highly skilled profile, they usually do demand a large workforce and long hours, something that perhaps isn’t too desirable in most developed countries. Still, places in Asia and South America are ready to pick up the slack and get in there.
Conclusion
The reasons for outsourcing any job are mostly similar. Outsourcing, in general, can be a positive shift for your company, symbolizing reduced costs, the efficiency of labor, and improved results. By delving into outsourcing, you can make efforts to administer your company’s resources better, destining them into growth instead of just keeping up the operation.
Reducing these labor costs means you will have more to spare on your deadline for future projects and more rapid, sustainable expansion, something desirable if you’re looking to compete in today’s market.
If you wish to read more on this, here’s an article containing even more jobs you should consider outsourcing.
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