Human Resources Outsourcing

By: Assaf Katzir
Submitted: 2007-01-17 12:20:21
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Outsourcing is when one company contracts another company to provide services/jobs, contrary to in-house employees to perform these services/jobs.

Outsourcing Benefits

  • Reduced expenses – Outsourcing can reduce the fixed and the recurrent costs. No payments for health insurance, payroll taxes, sometimes even the equipment per employee and general employees' administrative costs.

  • Expert services – Access to required skills that match the company needs, outsourcing services usually will bring required experience.

  • Technology availability - Access to the most required technology for the company without the whole costs of developing it in-house.

  • Expand to another market – It is possible to use outsourcing services as local agent in new markets.

  • Flexibility – In many cases that the workload of a company has ups and downs, human resources and machinery/equipment flexibility is necessary. Outsourcing can provide this flexibility when hiring the outsourcing services only when needed.

  • Business focus – Outsourcing enables companies to stay focused on their core business services/products.

Outsourcing Disadvantages

  • Less control of processes – Many times the outsourcing services are a black box which leads to a situation that as a company that provides the complete service/product you do not have control of all parts but you have the responsibility of the complete service/products.

  • Sensitive information can leak outside – Outsourcing services is another link in the chain and might be a weak one, not necessarily deliberately.

  • Dependency on outsourcing provider – The more functions that outsourcing is doing in your business the bigger dependency you have in the outsourcing provider. This dependency is a risk for your business if for some reason the outsourcing provider will decide to change the rules of the game.

  • Connections with clients might be weakening – In case that your customer receives the service from the outsourcing, you lose the intensive direct communication with the customer and this might lead to a decline of commitment level and losing feedback from your clients.

When to Outsource

Companies can make a use of an outsourcing service as a growth engine or as a way to access technology or a way to reduce expenses and costs or a way to reduce administrative overhead in order to focus on business core. Companies should not outsource any strategic role. All strategic roles should be held by in-house employees.

Assaf Katzir is owner and CEO of Katzir Soze Investments Ltd
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