Top 5 Benefits of HR Outsourcing  

29 January 2009:

On the demand side, a larger range of organisations urgently require HR solutions that allow them to provide better and more cost effective HR solutions. The HRO market is still maturing, 2009 will be interesting with large contracts signed and further HR provider consolidation. Why is there increasing demand from organisations to outsource their non-strategic, transactional HR processes? The benefits of HR Outsourcing include:-

  1. To reduce the cost of HR, and to better manage the cost of HR. Many organisations have achieved savings greater than 20% by standardising HR processes, utilising self-service tools and outsourcing. The extent of savings depends on willingness to standardise and transformation of the “retained” HR function. When the HR cost base is more tightly controlled and better managed then decisions can be made about the relative allocation of resources. In sectors with mergers, acquisitions and rapid changes in employee numbers a goal is to provide more variable costs linked to employee numbers which can push clients towards using more specialist 3rd parties.
  2. To avoid major investments required in HR technology. That multi-million dollar SAP/Oracle upgrade is much harder to justify in this economic environment. Some HRO providers can provide their own HR platform and offer the latest upgrades and services that your organisation probably can’t.

     

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Source: Glass Bead Consulting

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