How To Relieve Employee Stress in The Workplace

Using outsourced services to help support your employees and provide relevant expertise can take a huge weight off of their shoulders and allow them to concentrate on their core responsibilities.

How To Relieve Employee Stress in The Workplace

The 4 Advantages Of Utilising External Support For Your Lab

The benefits that you can gain from an expert, experienced, and highly qualified business partner truly cannot be understated.

The 4 Advantages Of Utilising External Support For Your Lab

The Main Services That Your Business Should Consider Outsourcing For

Outsourcing is where your organisation will hire a party outside of your own company to perform specific services.

The Main Services That Your Business Should Consider Outsourcing For

Why Is Outsourcing Accounts and Hr Functions A Good Idea?

If you're looking for an easy way to save money and grow your company at the same time, outsourcing may be the answer.

Why Is Outsourcing Accounts and Hr Functions A Good Idea?

What to look for when outsourcing business support functions

Hiring the wrong person is a costly mistake, so consider for a moment the possible consequences of outsourcing business functions to the wrong partner.

What to look for when outsourcing business support functions

Four services that your small business should outsource

Rather than handling everything in-house, it’s becoming more common to outsource certain jobs to external companies or expert freelancers.

Four services that your small business should outsource

How Outsourcing Helps Your Employees

A look some of the ways outsourcing not only benefits your business but can also help your employees too.

How Outsourcing Helps Your Employees

4 Challenges American Businesses Face when Outsourcing IT Overseas

Outsourcing overseas has been held up as a gold standard for saving money by relying on world class talent elsewhere in the world. It typically provides 24x7 coverage in conjunction with US based software support or back office staff. It often allows businesses to work with tech staff in the markets they want to cultivate, as Microsoft's Indian and Chinese hubs demonstrate. However, outsourcing IT overseas brings its own challenges, many of which can lead to serious problems for the company or its customers. Here are four challenges businesses face when outsourcing IT overseas.

4 Challenges American Businesses Face when Outsourcing IT Overseas

Which Functions You Should Outsource and Which Ones You Should Not

When the idea of outsourcing comes up, the next question arises - outsource what?

Which Functions You Should Outsource and Which Ones You Should Not

Outsourcing to Latin America

A survey by Harris Interactive on behalf of Capgemini, a leading provider of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, found that Latin America is a significant emerging outsourcing destination for U.S. companies. India remains the most popular, chosen by 60 per cent of respondents, followed by China (27 per cent) with Latin America selected by 25 per cent.

Outsourcing to Latin America

USA - Outsourcing May Be Counter-Productive

Increased use of business practices such as outsourcing, hiring temporary workers and reliance on project-based teams is having a detrimental effect on employees and may pose long-term problems for employers.

Outsourcing May Be Counter-Productive

HR Outsourcing To Increase In 2008

While HR outsourcing has remained relatively flat since 2005, it is expected to increase in 2008, according to the Everest Research Institute's annual Human Resources Outsourcing (HRO) market study.

HR Outsourcing To Increase In 2008

UK/India - Offshoring

A study by Katerina Rüdiger for The Work Foundation suggests that perceived threats to UK employment from offshoring to developing countries such as India have been exaggerated.

Offshoring

USA - Recruitment Outsourcing

According to a recent survey conducted by the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp - formerly HRI), more than a third (34.4%) of companies surveyed have outsourced portions of their recruiting function, compared with 15.4% in 2005. The positions leading the way in third-party sourcing are executives (56.5%) and experienced professionals (43.5%). The least-outsourced function is supervisors, at 14.5%.


More than one-third of organizations today report outsourcing portions of the recruitment function, compared with slightly more than 15% two years ago.

NZ - Outsourcing About More Than Cost

A report from IT services company Unisys predicts that the predominant trend in outsourcing for 2007 will be the expectation that service providers can deliver more than improved processes and cost limitation.

Outsourcing About More Than Cost

USA - HR Ripe For Outsourcing

A recent survey has found that organizations are ripe for HR outsourcing as they increasingly seek standardization as part of a re-emphasis on strategic business initiatives.

HR Ripe for Outsourcing

USA - Offshoring Could Save $58 Billion a Year

New research from The Hackett Group, a strategic advisory firm and an Answerthink company, estimates that Fortune 500 companies could potentially save US$58 billion annually, or over US$116 million on average, by off-shoring many of their back office activities.

Offshoring Could Save $58 Billion a Year

Canada - Symcor wins multi-million dollar outsourcing contract with Ceridian

Ceridian Canada, a leading human resource and payroll solutions company, and Symcor Inc., one of North America's leaders in business process outsourcing, today announced the signing of a five-year, multi-million dollar agreement which takes effect September 1, 2006. Under the terms of this contract, Symcor will assume the printing and distribution of payroll stubs, cheques and reports for Ceridian's 40,000 customers across Canada.

Symcor wins multi-million dollar outsourcing contract with Ceridian

Poland - Hewitt Opens New Outsourcing Center

Hewitt Associates, a global human resources services company, announced today the opening of a new HR outsourcing center in Krakow, Poland. The new center, to be opened by Jim Konieczny, global HR outsourcing operations leader for Hewitt, extends the firm's global HR business process outsourcing (BPO) capabilities and furthers its ability to serve its growing number of global HR BPO clients.

Hewitt Associates Opens HR Outsourcing Center in Poland