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What are the advantages of outsourcing?

Outsourcing is the current trend that companies implement to increase their production as well as to improve their services so that they would competent enough in business globalization. It lightens the workload of regular employees by sharing it with their outsourced companies and personnel. Thus, it increases the efficiency of the company to generate more profit out of its transactions.

Outsourcing happens when a company, for example, transfers its tasks into clients or workers outside the core company. Their relationship is maintained by a certain contract that the client signed the moment he submits himself with the terms of service or policies of the company he plans to work with.

Outsourcing of companies from highly developed countries like the United States usually reaches to the far to other countries. Take for example customer supports and call centers. Many US-based companies utilize clients in India and the Philippines to work for them. Many electronic products that are owned by US companies, are being assembled in China due to greater number of available workforce.

Let us look at the advantages of outsourcing in a broader picture

ADDRESSES UNEMPLOYMENT

One advantage of outsourcing is that both the outsourced client and the company are benefited. Let's take for example the call center jobs. In the Philippines, there is a big boom of opportunities for call center job openings. The Philippine government supported the invasion of these big US companies to the country with the aim of lowering the unemployment rate of the country.

True enough! A lot of college students and graduate engage in call center jobs because the pay is even higher than the minimum wage earners in the country. They wouldn't mind having to sacrifice their sleep of working at night, since they work based on US time, just to earn enough money that can be used for their education or for their families.

INCREASE ECONOMIC STABILITY

Because of having lower number of unemployed citizens, the economy of the country where outsourcing services are provided would boost up since they would gain positive confidence to attract more investors in the country. This would then increase tax remittances and government could utilize these taxes in its economic programs, thus, maximizing the benefits that could be gained from the outsourcing companies.

On the part of the workers, jobs offered by the outsourcing companies could be of great help to improve their present economic situation. As population increase,


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