Outsourcing Employee (Book Excerpts)

Outsourcing Employee (Book Excerpts)

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Curious about the outsourcing employee? Our book, “Outsourcing Through RentACoder” explains it all. Below are a few selected snippets that describe its importance and why you, as an outsourcer, should care. For details, head on over to this page and order the book. Then complement what you find here with the content in our growing outsourcing articles library (the book’s ‘online extension’).

Outsourcing Through RentACoder (now, RentACoder) is a 418 page step-by-step user guide for entrepreneurs who want to reduce their workload and increase productivity at the same time.

Excerpts:

• As part of a middle-management team, this employee wants to know how outsourcing can close large spending gaps and prevent the loss of company jobs. (page 15)
• Who are all the geniuses behind this revolutionary resource? Meet the crew! Just over a dozen employees helped build RentACoder (now, RentACoder) into the multi-millionaire establishment that it is. (page 29)
• According to a March 2004 edition of USAToday, “Employees working in foreign countries for U.S. companies are generally not covered by U.S. employment laws, which cover such issues as sexual harassment, age discrimination and worker safety. (page 44)
• Following that is a clear-cut distinction between coders and employees. It’s extremely important that you don’t equate the two and we go into plenty of detail explaining why. (page 50)
• Homesourcing (or homeshoring) is “the transfer of service industry employment from offices to home-based employees with appropriate telephone and Internet facilities”. (page 63)
• Outsourcing no longer refers to overseas sweatshops where employees work long hours for meager pay. Outsourcing today, also occurs onshore and often at prices which are more than generous. (page 73)
• Granted the service won’t cut expenses if you need to physically inspect an environment, readjust employee schedules and wages, or perform any other similar type of offline activity. (page 84)
• Employers for example, are vicariously liable for negligent acts or omissions by their employees during the course of employment. (page 95)
• Another instance in which outsourcing is improper is when an individual can’t accept the fact that a coder is not an employee, but a vendor instead. (page 106)
• As an employee, you’ll need to get permission or approval to outsource certain tasks since at several key points, you’ll represent the company you work for and make some life or death business decisions throughout the lifespan of an outsourced project. (page 113)
• HR outsourcing, or human resources outsourcing, is quite common and is often used to reduce the costs of maintaining employees. (page 136)
• Look for employee handbooks, user guides, and anything else that details how specific jobs should be performed. If you can’t find this material within your own environment, hit the Internet or the library. (page 144)
• One of the things that differentiates a coder from an employee is tax status. An outsourcing contract documents a contractor’s tax status for you, and it demonstrates the true nature of your working relationship. (page 154)
• Example types of sensitive material includes blueprints, conversations, customer information, employee records, non-copyrighted material, patent plans, formulas, the payroll database, and works under construction. (page 160)
• The RentACoder (now, RentACoder) website hosts over 260,000 coder profiles. In any brick-and-mortar type of work environment, that would equal 260,000-something employees. (page 240)
• You may also run into a few conflicts over the way a coder wants to do his job. That’s to be expected and it’s no different than the conflicts encountered with everyday employees. (page 268)
• Outsourcing requires this type of documentation because the IRS will throw you a surprise audit party if it suspects you’re working with employees instead of coders. (page 274)
• Outsourcing that replaces jobs and the people who perform them requires employee transition. Employee transition can move workers to different positions, to the RentACoder (now, RentACoder) website itself, or unfortunately, to job loss. (page 293)
• Read the section on Outsourcing Service Providers vs. Employees for more information regarding what you can and cannot expect from a RentACoder (now, RentACoder) contractor (page 56). (page 377)
• Companies now view employees as expenditures instead of cash cows — and as a result, they’re firing or laying off workers all in an effort to save money. (page 403)

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