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What are the benefits of outsourcing?
In the beginning, companies used outsourcing for things like IT services and payroll/human resources. Everything else, it was thought, needed to be done in-house in order to maintain quality control and costs. However, outsourcing is now done in many areas for various reasons: cost savings being one of the biggest enticements.
The beauty of an outsourcer is that rather than constantly retraining staff or seeking staff with new skills, outsourcing providers give the employer that edge. When a company outsources it is buying well-trained personnel, technology and intellectual capital. When you consider that outsourcing gives your company experienced, trained personnel and the latest technology, the cost savings are right.
A paid employee costs a company much more than a salary. They must provide a desk, computer, phone, and necessary facilities. Since a Virtual Assistant is self-employed, and only bills the client for the hours worked, or per assignment completed, this choice is often a perfect solution for the busy professional.
Outsourcing is the practice of businesses using outside firms to handle work that is normally done in-house. Small companies routinely will use this technique for their payroll processing, distribution and other important functions that are more easily done by an outside firm. Larger companies use outsourcing as well, in order to save money by cutting costs. This allows the business to focus on its core competencies but yet not worry about the other functions because the non-core services have been given to a highly skilled and knowledgeable person.
The case for outsourcing back-office services is simple. Outsourcing allows you to exchange the high fixed costs and management drain of an in-house back-office operation, for the variable cost, flexibility, control and expertise of company whose primary business is back-office services. In other words, the outsourcing processes driven by a need to maximize value. It frees you to focus on what you do best and need most — recruiting, training, sales, building and maintaining client relationships. Here’s what leading publications say about outsourcing.
“Outsourcing allows companies to concentrate on their core competencies. It enables them to have all other functions performed more efficiently, at a lower cost and high level of competency, by companies that themselves are performing in their own key areas of expertise.” — Nation’s Business
“Why do something yourself it if can be done better and cheaper on the outside,’ asks George Howick, Director of the Management Center at Bowling Green University. “Look at the numbers and see how you can save money while still keeping tight reins on essential operations.” — Entrepreneur Magazine
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