How often do we as organizations really pay attention to our HR departments or give them the due credit for the good work they do to keep the employees happy and focused?
Oftentimes as organizations our focus mainly lies towards the sales, marketing or sometimes even R&D and finance departments. We tend to completely ignore HR at least until we stumble upon a hiccup that triggers the existence of HR department.
Any organizations human resource department is purely responsible for employee payroll, tax filing, and health administration. In addition, they are also responsible for taking care of legal compliance, maintain files and supervise trainings. Currently many organizations are in the trend of outsourcing basic HR functions as they believe that having this service in-housed is tedious task. They are in fact not completely incorrect on this decision as there are multiple benefits in outsourcing HR for the organization and employees.
Key human resource outsourcing benefits for the organization are:
Key benefits for the employee are:
In a nutshell all these HR outsourcing agencies provide professionally managed packages including workers’ compensation, HR compliance, payroll, benefits design and administration and talent management.
Organizations however have to be cautious when they choose their service providers for human resource outsourcing services should be done thoroughly and complying with legal aspects. Similar to the multiple pro’s we see in outsourcing organizations should be aware of the cons when choosing the right service provider.