Terrible outsourcing
Fri, 08/29/2008 - 14:17 — admin
According to the study published yesterday by Ernst & Young, the vast majority of European companies practice of freelance staff. In Russia, only a few companies use the services outsourcing companies. Domestic companies are reluctant to pass on the outsourcing of operations for fear of losing control over the business and trying to maintain trade secrets.
The study was attended by over 600 heads of European companies with a turnover of 100 million euros. Of these, 70% attracted a freelance staff to perform at least one function, while 20% are planning to increase the number Freelancer in the next two years, 49% of respondents reported that outsourcing allows to minimize costs. Usually convey to outsourcing accounting services, logistics, information technology and telecommunication services.
Outsourcing allows you to forget about the fixed costs of personnel, such as wages, jobs, software, and the risks arising from the collection of damage caused by an employee, head of the department approves outsourcing company "Grant Thornton" Sergei Kalinin. But Russian firms, according to experts Ernst & Young, rarely benefit from the services of Freelancer. "Now the main customers of outsourcing companies in Russia - a Russian firms with foreign capital and representative offices and branches of Western firms" - noted Sergei Kalinin.
Leading consultant department of personnel management consulting department ACS "Development of business systems" Vitaly Leonov believes that outsourcing services more actively enjoy and holdings of numerous subsidiaries. "Create, for example, a single accounting service of 50 cheaper than to keep in the state of ten" daughters "10-15 accountants and accounting in the UK to consolidate data" - explained Vitaly Leonov.
As a rule, Russian companies pass on the full amount of outsourcing tasks accountants, say experts. According to Sergei Kalinin, "clients" Grant Thornton "using outsourcing, most often encountered by representatives of services and retail trade, as well as telecommunications companies."
