HR Outsourcing: Improves Bottom Lines

By: Kaustov Kashyap
Outsourcing human resources management operations can seriously impact bottom lines of the company. Functionalities and efficiencies delivered by optimizing HR outsourcing can help talent management professionals to save on time and focus on more productive activities such as negotiating better supply contracts and payer agreements.
HR Outsourcing also brings economies of scale to larger organizations, by helping the company to improve on staff efficiencies and upgrading their core competencies, such as to enhance productivity.
Some of the HR tasks and responsibilities that can be outsourced include: payroll management, employee benefit insurances, HRIS software and process automation, workers compensation and liability insurance. Here are 5 key areas wherein HR outsourcing helps:
Employee Disciplinary Issues: One of the major concerns for HR managers is employee disciplinary issues and those concerning employee benefits. For instance, when there is an issue with an employee, the entire team gets distracted and management tends to lose focus.
HR outsourcing helps manage employee disciplinary issues to eliminate unproductive staffers who drag down productivity and promote attrition within companies.
Hiring and Training New Employees: The average cost of replacing an employee is around 12 week’s productivity, which cannot be quantified on its impact on company bottom lines. Outsourcing helps to train the new hires and retrain employees in certain cases. They become your strategic HR business partners to help administer recruiting, train staff and allocate resources wisely.
An outsourcing company can help HR managers to narrow down on the right talent for the right job role, before making the final decision call. The company further has an infrastructure that facilitates candidates to easily apply for open positions online, thus streamlining the recruitment processes to become seamlessly efficient and hassle-free.
Employee Benefits and Compensation: Outsourcing of human resources function helps deal with issues as regards to appropriate employee benefits and compensation. They also help address pay parity gaps across geographies to determine apt compensation strategies and provide fair market value with right feedback that helps organisations retain talent.
An outsourcing company can help automate the benefit offerings with software that facilitates accurate calculation of deduction of state or federal taxes, online complaint filing, PTO requests etc.
Health Insurance: With wellness initiatives being implemented by companies as part of their benefits strategy, it becomes quite a time-consuming exercise for HR managers to get into the nitty-gritty’s of wellness funding and insurances provided to employees.
Herein intervention from an outsourcing professional service provider helps employers to mitigate risks that they might face down the road, since some employees aren’t aware on how to use the health benefits plan appropriately. They generally end up buying services which are absolutely unnecessary. Guidance to such employees is of critical importance.
Saves on overhead costs: HR outsourcing can help save on significant overhead costs for organizations – to eliminate the need for renovations, additional equipment, better infrastructure that can send your expenditure to sky rocketing heights.
HR outsourcing helps avoid sudden expenditures and maximize most on the resource potential of the team through skill up-gradation as required. HR outsourcing is a great way of insuring that core functions of the company which do not suffer, when key talent choose to quit at a brief notice.
(The author is a HR & Career Consultant, Jail Road, Jorhat)