Many organizations have lofty growth aspirations for the new year, but are struggling on how to meet them. Hiring has gotten increasingly challenging, with wage expectations rising and hundreds of thousands of unfilled positions, making it difficult for organizations to scale organically. Yet many businesses are still hesitant about outsourcing, either because they’ve been burned before, or because they don’t trust cheap, off-shore labor to handle critical business functions.
At Extend Your Team, we understand that the best way to grow is by making money, not saving it. Though our outsourced employees are certainly more affordable than their insourced counterparts, we know that quality is the chief concern for flourishing businesses. So let’s talk about how outsourced employees can help you reach your growth objectives and actually improve your business operations, all while helping the bottom line.
Freeing Up Your Time
The primary way that outsourcing can help you boost growth is by freeing up your time to actually focus on the bigger picture. According to a recent study by Asana, only 40% of the average employee’s time is spent on meaningful work, the type of worth that drives growth. The other whopping 60% is spent on administration, researching, and manual tasks. Given how much you pay your core team, can you afford this time wastage? An outsourced employee allows you to offload the majority of these tasks, freeing up valuable time to focus on strategy, planning, and skilled labor.
The outsourcing partner you choose, however, is critical to your ability to enjoy this benefit. If you don’t trust your outsourced employee to handle the tasks efficiently, effectively, and reliably, you will likely waste even more time micromanaging and correcting mistakes than you do now. At Extend Your Team, we go through a rigorous recruiting process and select only the top 10% of applicants to ensure quality is never an issue for our clients.
Ramping Up
For organizations looking to grow and scale quickly, outsourced employees are often the clear answer. Recruiting and hiring is an arduous process, especially if you don’t have an experienced HR team. You’ll spend thousands of dollars and countless hours interviewing, if you can even get enough applicants through the door.
Best-in-class outsourcing companies, on the other hand, have extensive talent networks and take care of all of the recruiting for you, pulling you in only when they’ve identified a quality candidate for you to consider. If time is of the essence, it’s best to leave the hiring process to the professionals, so you can focus those resources elsewhere.
Experience
Most organizations shy away from outsourced employees because they equate outsourcing with low-cost offshoring and low-quality talent. And, in many cases, they’re not wrong. Most outsourcing companies focus on the cost of labor, providing inexperienced employees that take months to train. But, when working with a best-in-class partner, experience and quality are actually benefits of outsourcing.
Partners like Extend Your Team leverage a high-quality talent network that includes professionals with varied experiences across a multitude of industries, job roles, and departments. We staff members to your team based on their prior background, strengths, and potential. While the lower price tag is certainly a plus, Extend Your Team believes that the best way to grow your business is by adding high-quality employees to your roster that you can trust and may ultimately even hire full-time.
Support
Outsourced employees need a support system, particularly during the onboarding process, just like any in-house asset would. Some outsourcing partners will leave you to handle this onboarding process on your own, disappearing shortly after the contract is signed. At Extend Your Team, we believe that a strong support system is vital to the outsourced employee’s success, and to your business’s ability to grow.
Look for a partner that you trust to not only provide you with outsourced talent, but to guide that talent through the first weeks and months at your organization, and to provide continued support for the duration of your engagement. When working with the right vendor, this support can be a huge bonus that translates into shorter ramp times, higher productivity, and even improved internal processes.
Conclusion
At Extend Your Team, we understand that outsourcing is an important and often difficult decision. Our mission is not to simply slash costs by providing low-quality outsourced employees at a discount, but to work with you and your team to build for growth. Our founders have scaled countless businesses by outsourcing vital business functions to the right vendors, achieving tremendous success along the way.
As you consider outsourcing for the first time, think about how that partner plays into your long-term goals and growth aspirations. Schedule a free consultation with Extend Your Team to learn more about our approach, network, and customer success stories.