OFFSHORING MYTHS

Wondering whether your move to offshoring is an ethical compromise? It’s common to feel concerned that you will be supporting a “sweatshop” of sorts.

In this video we debunk this myth and explain how offshoring, when done responsibly, is a massive win-win for everyone involved. 

The truth is, offshoring creates opportunities – not just for businesses, but for people across the globe. What will you do with yours? 

Have you always thought that lowering your costs through offshoring means you’ll need to lower your standards of performance for a new teammate? If so, I have recorded this video to change your mind! 

Many of our clients have told us that their offshore teammates aren’t just more affordable, but are the best back-office staff they’ve ever had. And there’s a very simple reason why the quality of an offshore admin teammate is often higher than their local counterparts, which I cover in this video.

“BUT WHAT WILL OUR CLIENTS THINK?!” This question holds back SO many businesses that I speak to from offshoring.

And I get it. Your clients are the ones keeping the lights on, and you want to avoid anything that will potentially compromise their trust in you. And offshoring feels like it may be one of those risks. But I also want to propose that you may be overthinking this one.

In this video, I share what ACTUALLY goes down when a business introduces a new offshore teammate to their clients.

There are many boxes you need to tick if you want to get offshoring right in your business. Security, tech, the role, the person, training… most businesses have these things covered.But the box that WAY too many businesses forget to tick is getting their local team on board with the decision.

In fact, the support of your team may just be the biggest determinant of whether offshoring works or not in your business and if your team are pushing against the idea of offshoring, or if you’d like them to be more engaged with your decision to hire an offshore teammate, this video is for you.

We’ve all been sucked in by a few urban myths in our time. So when it comes to offshoring, I hate to hear people dismissing it as “too risky” for their business without doing their homework and making up their own mind.

The truth is that the risk of offshoring depends mainly on how you approach this decision. But what if I also told you that offshoring can reduce risk in other parts of your business and that many of our clients think offshoring is much safer than the alternative? 

In this video, I share how offshoring can be done safely AND help futureproof your business for your team and your clients. 

Have you ever been concerned that going offshore is exposing your clients to additional cybersecurity risk?

5 ELK client, Leong Tang from Callaghans Financial Services certainly was initially.

Hear what Leong discovered by not just working closely with 5 ELK, but also visiting our office in Cebu, The Philippines.