Sustainable Business Scaling: Offshoring in the Philippines
Scalability, or the ability to efficiently expand operations, adapt to market demands, and maintain a competitive edge is vital for the success of any business. It is also the key for sustained growth for those with the ambition to tap into the global market. One powerful solution that international businesses are leveraging to unlock this ability is offshoring business processes in the Philippines.
How offshoring in the Philippines support business scaling
The Philippine offshoring industry has been in the business for decades, helping large businesses like Microsoft and AT&T sustain growth while maintaining efficiency within their business operations.
Choosing to offshore in the Philippines is a strategic choice because of the following reasons:
Filipinos are globally competitive and able to fill skill gaps fast
Hiring local professionals and skilled workers often seem to be the most logical choice for most businesses. But while such a practice is sustainable for small businesses, growing businesses will likely encounter difficulties hiring locally because the demand for skilled workers can be too high for the local talent pool to supply.
Filipinos easily fill these skill gaps because of their culture that highly values education, which has led to generations of highly skilled workers. They are also proficient in English, which lets them access international resources. In addition, they are experienced in international standard practices because of their decades-long exposure to global companies.
In the Philippines, businesses can hire the right people for the job, without having to make do with who is available nearby.
Office spaces cost drastically less in the Philippines
In the US, real estate prices are high enough that adding more office spaces for a growing workforce can actually slow down business scaling due to cost restrictions. In 2022, office space leases in Manhattan cost around $100 per square foot. It’s even worse in New York where an office space lease can cost as high as $300 per square foot.
In the Philippines, modern office spaces in its capital can cost as little as ₱1,037 per square meter, which is roughly $18.5 dollars. With that much savings, a business can actually hire more employees, avail of more cutting-edge resources, increase production, and afford more marketing campaigns to accelerate growth.
Experienced office management is available
The Philippines’ offshoring industry has years and years of experience in handling the offshore teams of American and other foreign businesses, big and small. As such, it already has efficient systems in place that businesses can work with right off the bat. This includes HR and management teams dedicated to providing support for offshore teams and their employers.
So even if your offshore office is in another country, you can manage your team as if they were operating just next door. But with less hassle.
Offshore teams are more sustainable than freelancers
For a small business that wants to scale up, hiring freelancers may work at first. But as the workforce grows, managing their different demands and handling their individual training becomes impossible for a business owner, especially when they should really be more focused on business strategy.
Working with offshore teams in the Philippines is much more sustainable because they operate like a local team even from miles away. Members also work in an office where they can collaborate and mentor each other, there’s a hierarchy to follow for business decisions and escalation, and there’s HR to handle issues, benefits, and other office concerns that growing businesses don’t want on their plates.
As such, business operations remain efficient and manageable even with the increased business demands involved in business scaling.
Offshoring in the Philippines for small and medium businesses is possible with Tahche
Harnessing the expertise of offshore workers and professionals in the Philippines has proven to be a game-changer. It has given businesses a competitive edge over their rivals, proof of which is their continued support of the industry after years of availing its services.
Yet availing offshoring services can be intimidating, and even risky, for small and medium businesses because they can’t afford the minimum requirements of many offshoring agencies that only target big businesses wanting to go even bigger.
Not with Tahche.
Tahche offers offshoring services to businesses of all sizes. And that includes startups who might want to start small by hiring one or two offshore professionals from the Philippines. We don’t impose a minimum number of hires because we are confident that with each employee you hire offshore with us, you can gradually improve business operations until your business is successful enough to grow your workforce up to the hundreds (maybe even more!).
We also offer modern office spaces in the Philippines’ business districts in Cebu and Manila, as well as HR and management services to ensure your employees are well taken care of, and that you remain in full control.
