HR OUTSOURCING
How HR Outsourcing
benefits your organization!
If you were a child in the 70’s or the 80’s then you would
definitely remember the fact that your father worked only in one company and
most likely his tenure (existence) in the company was well over two
decades. For all of us 70’s & 80’s
children we could identify with the fact that our dad’s first job was their
last job and that they would retire from the same company that issued them
their first appointment letter. In those
days our fathers were defined by the company they worked for (irrelevant of the
post) and then the post they held. In
those days your father was either an accountant, a banker or a lawyer or just
worked in an office and maybe a celebrity doctor.
As the 90’s ended colleges mushroomed and pseudo
entrepreneurs bought licenses to open a huge number of colleges that started
printing degrees and flooded the workforce with a mass volume of new and fresh
young blood t take over after our dad’s retired. This new youth being smarter and being weaponized by technology destroyed any and all jobs for secretaries and receptionists as they
became a one window solution that was quicker and more efficient and could
multi task.
By the time people were itching with the Y2K bug colleges
started specializing in ridiculous degrees such as a 12 month course in MBA
which gave you a paper that said you were qualified in Marketing as well as
Finance or were a Marine Biology Botanist.
The likes of Lipton with the introduction of a Major player such as
Tapal started looking for people who were certified Tea tasters and finding the
right kind of Human Resource made colleges churn out (By the thousands) HR
executives (with no practical experience) as people who would facilitate HR
departments in finding the right person.
Sadly these two words “HR Outsourcing” became a cliché due
to the fact that everywhere you looked you had some kid in his late 20’s who
was pitching solutions to seasoned HR departments with only one years’
experience as an intern him or herself. Over
the past ten od years these money minded people trained themselves by working
through daddy’s contacts and many organizations bore the expense of these kids
trainings. Suddenly the glamorized
element of being a consultant made seasoned companies focus on only the three
first alphabets of the word consultant and they recoiled and took everything
back in their grasp.
Today in Pakistan we have a lot of job insecurity. Many companies are faced with so many issues
such as non-working days due to strikes etc. or face such bad luck that in the
past few years what one would have thought to be a good company turns into a bad
career choice. I have seen many
companies (big & small) simply close their doors due to external or internal
matters beyond their control. Also if
one considers the fact and believes that CEO’s don’t run companies rather the
ground forces do then one should note that “people” suffer the most when it
comes to a company closing down or downsizing.
I would suggest that every organization utilize a HR
Outsourcing company today to protect its employees. If done with a solid company HR Outsourcing is
one area that will benefit your workforce immensely because rather than pose as
a threat the reasons given below will NOT only protect the employer rather
provide immense benefits to any company as well. Let’s begin with why you should outsource your
HR and with whom.
- If you run a huge workforce
or have a small army of even 20 people you should always outsource your HR
to a third party because in case you shut shop or need to downsize or
replace an employee a good HR company will not only take care of the
legalities for you as a company but will also find another opportunity for
the person you might want to change or see as someone who is dead
weight. Not all marriage’s work
professionally so why not protect your employee and yourself by having a
vendor that can do just that for you.
- When it comes to benefits
if you choose the right HR vendor that company will be able to get the
maximum number of benefits even more than you could have provided for you
as they would have an immense amount of workforce and the volume they can
negotiate with an insurance company for example would really benefit your employees
as well.
- HR departments go insane
when it comes to medical compensation claims and the paperwork turns the
organization into a glorified post office that deals in paperwork
endlessly which creates an audit nightmare. So why not have a company that is secure
which will take care of these VAS elements of HR for you. When you choose such an organization
make sure they themselves have been in existence for over two decades and
have a solid bank statement which will demonstrate a good “stable” business
turnover. Volumes do not matter because if you are
consistent in what you do then the amount does not matter.
- HR companies are only as good
as the customer service they provide.
If they have the ability to provide solid “Human” resources where
the owners are involved supported by solid technology and immense
professional contacts only then should you consider talking to them. These are not the times to test out
newbies with such a service. It may
be ok to give a young pup two to three executive search tasks so that he
may approach his college buddies but one should NOT risk a company’s
workforce security to the likes of new blood as your employees demand security.
- The last thing one should
look for when you engage any outsourcing for HR is the actual number of
placements it does and the value added service verticals that it has with
its organization. Good stable HR companies
will always not only have a pool of quality resumes but will also have an
immense databank of clients which will secure you if you need to replace
an employee or need a career option as an employee within the same field
internationally.
If you are able to consider a proper HR Outsourcing company as
a strategic partner with whom you are able to sign a NDA and then lock in on a
comfortable rate you will realize that you will definitely be able to control
on your COGS and eliminate a huge amount of the stress you have. It’s like when P&G decided to eliminate
all sales positions within its organization in Pakistan and only have a
Director Sales that sat at IBL and controlled the sales team to work smarter
and captured the entire market with Always when advertising sanitary napkins
was thought to be un-Islamic. Also this
outsourcing of the sales force played a major part in Pakistan for the change
of a company name from Inter-Pak Shaving to what we know as Gillette (the best
a man can get)
Before you disqualify HR Outsourcing know that not only will
you save in money rather your HR department will save time and an immense
amount of hassle when you eliminate many factors beyond your control when you
secure the best interests of your organization. If you would like to talk to someone in the HR
field who is actually good at what they do and can deliver all the above
services then e-mail me and see what the world has in store for you.
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