The Strategic Move: Benefits of Offshoring Tasks in Your Business
In an increasingly globalised market, businesses in the trade and construction sector are constantly on the lookout for ways to optimise operations, reduce costs, and enhance productivity and profits. One strategy gaining traction amongst savvy small business owners is offshoring. Here's a glimpse into the many advantages offshoring offers for those who embrace this resource.
- Focus on Core Operations: By offshoring non-core tasks, business owners can realign their focus and resources on the heart of their operation. This includes high value, customer facing activities, working with their team, training and development and implementation of priorities.
- Scalability: Offshoring provides the flexibility to scale operations as required, such as in peak seasons or during large projects. You can scale human resources without the complications of long-term commitments. Conversely, during slower periods, resources can be scaled back.
- Access to Global Talent: With constant challenges to attract quality talent locally, offshoring breaks geographical constraints, allowing businesses to tap into a vast pool of global talent. Be it a specialised design, estimating or a niche software project, offshoring can provide the expertise that might be scarce or expensive locally.
- Enhanced Productivity: Many offshoring companies operate in different time zones, leading to the possibility of a 24-hour work cycle. While a construction site might close for the night locally, back-end tasks like design modifications, accounting, or estimating and administration support can continue unhindered in an offshore location.
- Cost Savings: This not the main reason you could consider offshoring, however, it is definitely one of the benefits. One of the most immediate benefits of offshoring is the reduction in labour costs. By outsourcing tasks to countries with lower labour rates, with lower costs of living expenses, such as India and the Philippines, businesses can achieve significant savings.
Examples of Task to Offshore
- Drafting and CAD Services
- Estimation and Take-offs
- Project Management Assistance
- Bookkeeping and Accounting
- Data Entry
- Purchasing and Procurement
- Customer Support
- Marketing and Digital Presence
- Contract Review and Management
- Quality Assurance and Control
- Document Management
- Virtual Site Inspections
Offshoring, when executed strategically, can be a game-changer for small business owners in these industries, offering an edge in a fiercely competitive market.
Written by Jon Mailer
PROTRADE United
CEO& Founder
