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IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON THE PROCESS OF BUSINESS OUTSOURCING.

 

Almost every Sector always needs Outsourcing personnel, this is not only limited to the business sector but majorly to every sector as every sector was affected during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.

Business Outsourcing is the business practice of hiring another party outside a company to perform functions that could have been performed by the Company’s own employees and Staff.  Business Outsourcing is a practice usually taken by business owners or companies to cut costs including salaries for its personnel, overhead, equipment and technology.

Benefits of Outsourcing Include:

  • Increase Efficiency
  • Variable Capacity
  • Access to skills or resources
  • Accelerated time to market
  • Lower costs

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to the forefront many of the immediate and long-term benefits of Business Outsourcing. Covid-19 has proven that many workers don’t have to physically be in the office to work effectively the same goes for outsourced workers.

With many employees working from home for the foreseeable future, businesses are forced to quickly implement technology and solutions that will help them best adapt to these new circumstances. In this virtual age, migrating an organization to cloud-based technology is really a great impact of covid-19 on that company, as the company is improved technology-wise and can reach a wider audience virtually.

Unlike before the Pandemic when we all operated physical offices and felt like without it our businesses won’t go fine, with the implementation of Technology most businesses were able to achieve their goals.

Outsourcing ultimately offers business owners great advantages. The process allows them to build a team of skilled professionals without adding the expense of full-time employees and additional office space and equipment. With outsourcing, business owners and senior management can focus their time, attention and resources on their company’s core competencies and spend their time setting new goals and finding ways to achieve them.

Covid-19, created a world where we all came together, we met new people virtually and we realized their benefits to our businesses. It gave some businesses a new set of goals and an increased rate of production. By outsourcing particular tasks, companies are often able to substantially improve performance by drawing on the niche skills of experts in certain fields.

With Covid 19, many companies were able to achieve their goals faster, as there were no pressures from any side, things were done faster and quicker, people delivered good and productive results. The brain was relaxed and was able to think so deeply. It wasn’t working under any form of pressure.

As one might imagine, outsourcing piecemeal work is almost always going to be cheaper than hiring permanent full-time staff. Not only will you save time and money on recruitment, but your profit will also be extended s to shorter overheads. With Covid-19 it was quite easy to outsource, as most people were free and needed their hands tied on productive activities.

Even though Covid-19 impacted business outsourcing, it also affected it. Some companies were unable to get funds to pay some of these outsourcing personal because the pandemic kept affecting their business and for some, they went out of business. While some Companies lost their staff and even their boss as a result of the pandemic.

Despite this disadvantage, we could see that Covid-19 channeled us to a new phase which we all got used to and we even became more informed and created better means for our various businesses.