Sending off a job outside the organization is called outsourcing. Although it seems like one of the latest trends, the history of outsourcing is older than we imagine. Whenever people have been working for their clients, they have shared the task with other people somehow. There are numerous cases where the virtual employee doesn't need to be an expert at a specific task. In those cases, the work has been delegated offsite. This practice is the ancestor of outsourcing. As time passes by, the tradition of sharing tasks outside the organization has created a specific field where people are specially trained and show expertise in outsourcing. What does outsourcing mean? It refers to allotting some job responsibilities to an outsider of the organization instead of giving the task to the existing employees of the company. How did it start? In the 19th and 20th century businesses didn't use outsourcing as a trading custom. The conception of outsourcing remote employees was just a myt...
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