Do you have a gap in your team? Having trouble recruiting people with the right skills?  We have a solution – outsource key administrative and bookkeeping tasks.

It may be that you only need temporary employees during busy periods or for a specific project. Perhaps you have a gap that needs to be filled while you search for the ideal full-time team member or by splitting up the role, you can find the perfect candidate.

Hiring and retaining staff can be a challenge and a costly exercise for employers, particularly in the current working climate. Businesses often want someone with a range of skills so finding the right person is not always easy.  

Benefits of outsourcing

Whatever your reason for outsourcing, hiring a reputable person or team involves minimal investment and saves you money and time on everything from staff training to additional salaries – and holiday pay!

Benefits include:

• no recruitment costs
• reduced time and spending on management and training tasks
• simplified working relationships
• speed and quality of work unaffected by holidays or sickness
• savings on the cost of utilities and equipment which need to be bought or hired
• access to skills and expertise that would otherwise not be available or affordable

How to decide whether to outsource some tasks

Here are our top tips to decide whether to outsource a task:

1. List out the tasks that you need an employee (or yourself!) to do.

2. Separate these into tasks that could potentially be outsourced against those that have to be done in house by an employee by asking:

Is it one of your core competencies – if not, it could be outsourced

Is it something a task that you or your team dread doing? If yes, it could be outsourced.

Would outsourcing save you significant time? If yes, outsource it!

It is something that requires experience and expertise that you do not have inhouse?  If yes, outsource it! 

3. To be extra sure, complete a cost-versus-time calculation. Even if you are able to do the tasks in-house, that will be time taken away from accomplishing more strategic goals so it may be saving money if you outsource the more simple, admin tasks. 

Outsourcing may be the answer to all of your recruitment challenges.

Hour Hands is made up of experienced Personal Assistants and talented bookkeepers all ready to support you with those urgent and important tasks that you just don’t have the time to complete. From booking travel, to managing your diary and managing your accounts and tax returns – we can help you complete tasks and shift them off your to-do list! By outsourcing your tasks, you can flex when you need support – be it ongoing support or for a one-off project or resolving a particular task. 

To find out more simply visit our website or call us on 01727 818262. We will ask how we can support you and offer a solution either on an hourly rate or package cost. The choice is yours – we simply want to help.