What is an “all-rounder” employee? Most small or medium businesses start successful global sourcing by hiring all-rounder employees. An all-rounder employee is an office worker able to complete most jobs,roles, or tasks in a typical small family company or business. This employee can answer the phone, check the mail, can respond to simple administrative e-mails, […]
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Cracking the Offshoring Nut, Offshoring History and the Offshoring Process
In our ever connected world there are massive opportunities: buying, selling and now EMPLOYING anywhere in the world. Now, it’s actually easy to find well educated, highly motivated administration/office workers. Who will work for $120 a week. The challenge is how do you find, engage, transfer your knowledge, and then manage them. Those […]
Never Give up: How I Saved My Business Through Offshor
As a business owner for 20 years, my business enjoyed constant profitable growth. From a $200 start-up, we bootstrapped the company to $30M with 500 staff . Then the GFC hit. The consequential ensuing mayhem caused a 30% reduction in market size across Australia. Within a few months we had serious red ink. Workers were […]
6 Tips to Avoid Common Business Mistakes in Getting Low-Cost Employees
It’s actually very easy to hire staff in the Philippines with amazingly productivity, who are paid about $120 a week. These staff members are all educated in English with university degrees. But like anything, there are traps and issues. Most mistakes come from lack of understanding of the critical success factors when getting low-cost employees. […]
From BPO Business Process Outsourcing to Specialised Services
To appreciate this discussion, you need to understand that in the Philippines, larger corporate or BPO Business Process Outsourcing employers typically pay their administration workers with a university degree $45AUD a week. That’s $1.13AUD an hour. Away from these larger employers, wages are even lower. The scary part is that they are often better educated than […]