I know that most people don’t care for companies that outsource departments of their business.  But for the small company that we operate, it really didn’t make much sense to have many different staff for positions that we needed, but were not critical to our success.

Many of those departments such as Payroll, Human Resources, and our IT support were smart departments to outsource.  Though we did need the resources presented by specialists in these areas, we didn’t need them all the time.

The biggest example was our IT department.  It seems that we rarely have an IT problem (knock on wood), but when we do, all we have to do is pick up the phone and someone will help us out.  It has definitely made a difference to the bottom line of our company by reducing our staffing expenses.

It is nice too that our employees understand the reasoning behind the outsourcing - it makes the workplace a friendlier environment when they know we are not trying to get rid of them.