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Writer's pictureSharon Choo

The Benefits of Outsourcing

Updated: Jun 18, 2023


Benefits of outsourcing

1. Focus on core tasks

Outsourcing frees you from day to day back-office operations and allow you to focus your resources on your core business processes. This is true for both new as well as growing company. For start-up, entrepreneurs may do all things by themselves. However, this could take up lots of time not to mention the stress entails. Instead of struggling and wasting on areas outside your expertise, you could shift your valuable resources on your core business activities with your skillset that you are good at and enjoy. For the growing company, the back-office operations tend to expand especially when the company is in rapid growth. Instead of apportioning a large chunk of resources setting up the infrastructure, human resources, and provision for the overheads, you could free the stress by outsourcing and focus your resources more on generating maximum income for the business.



2. Reduced labour cost and overhead expenses

This is where benefit of outsourcing come into play in a realist way because outsourcing allows you to pay only for services that you need. Whether it is routine monthly bookkeeping or yearly tax filing, it offers so much flexibility on staffing and HR cost without compromising on the expected results and quality.


Choose to hire and train employee is expensive and there is no guarantee of employee’s long-term commitment or dedication. In the case of in-house employee leaving the company, all the training, skills, effort, and time invested also left with the exiting employee. The business manager would have to start all over again training for the new employee. The manager or HR would have to spend many resources on speedily searching for the right candidate, training, medical and other employment benefits, extra payroll expenses such as increments and bonuses, etc. Aside from staff expenses, there is also infrastructure needed to accommodate the inhouse back-office operation such as office space, office furniture’s, IT equipment and software, photocopy machine, etc. The expenses needed to incur and to provision throughout the year can be overwhelming. While with outsourcing, the same result can be provided, and it comes with continuity of quality service and committed partnership 24/7 towards your business with much lesser cost and hassle.


Some raised that quality is better sought off than price, but outsourcing allows you to have it all. As the outsourcing provides you the engagement with the top expertise in the field and at the right price as well.


In conclusion, with outsourcing the company would be able to save staff and staff related cost substantially without compromising on desired result and service quality and allow the business owner to invest their resources on other core areas of their business.



3. Benefit of outsourcing get you access to skilled expertise

Signing up for outsourcing means signing up for access to specialist in the field, professionals who keep their skills constantly updated with knowledge, statutory changes, and new technology. Outsourcing also has all the facilities in place for business support as well as licenses and accreditations necessary to ensure top performance and deliverables. In the case, when client is faced with other business needs or complex issue to solve, outsourcing has extensive networking with other professionals that it can pull to help the client, which may not be obtained otherwise from an in-house employee. Outsourcing also allows you to have access to multiple type of expertise under one house, for example accounting experts, tax experts, audit experts, law experts and so on. It is truly one stop expertise solution to cater support for your business.



4. Increase inhouse efficiency

By transporting the tedious back-office tasks to your outsourcing partner, it leaves more room for your internal staffs to focus on the core business tasks more efficiently, aka their efforts are more targeted on the priority. It is an all-win, on one hand you have your dedicated outsource partner taking care of your support operation with top expertise and with much lower cost and on the other, you have your internal staffs performing their core task with greatest level of efficiency and with best allocated resources. Furthermore, it gives competitive advantage and leverage on business growth speed, quality performance and efficiency scale in comparison to your business competitors.



5. Managed risks

Every business would face certain of risks, the market, the compliance and regulatory risk, operational risk, financial risk, the ever-evolving technology, the global economy etc. When partnering with outsource company, you will benefit from mitigating the potential risk as outsourcing assume all these risks and best managed them in their areas of expertise. Misstep in implementing procedures and strategies or even omitted to comply to the correct procedure is often costlier and frustrating than to let the experts navigate and bring in the desired results professionally and efficiently to the table. At the end of the day, choosing the reliable outsourcing business partner should give the peace of mind to the business owner and thus enable you to pursuit on what matters most, your business continuous success.


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