| A company will only be considered as a true global | | | | have to meet your internal data security standards |
| company if it will make use of available intellectual | | | | otherwise your intellectual property rights, trade |
| manpower from any parts of the world. Outsourcing | | | | secrets and your customers' privacy will be |
| offshore is what businesses call the farming out of | | | | jeopardized. |
| company departments/jobs abroad. It is a business | | | | 2. Trade Secrets |
| strategy nowadays that companies use to improve | | | | Every company is anchored to a certain knowledge |
| service levels, quality of work and to cut operational | | | | that makes it unique to others. It is vital to guard this |
| costs to increase business revenue. Jobs are usually | | | | knowledge and to weigh carefully whether certain |
| outsourced to countries such as Philippines, India and | | | | information can be handled by outsourced service |
| Singapore. These countries are developed in terms of | | | | providers or by your in-house personnel only. |
| intellectual capital. One of the jobs commonly | | | | 3. Provider Unable to Complete Assigned Tasks |
| outsourced offshore is data entry. However, with the | | | | Jobs outsourced are usually project oriented. While |
| rising incidents of identity thief and piracy is it safe to | | | | some service providers are fast in the completion of |
| outsource offshore data entry jobs? | | | | assignments to ensure prompt payment most have |
| First let us have an overview of the job. It involves the | | | | difficulty in keeping up with deadlines sometimes due to |
| efficient and smooth handling of company information | | | | multiple projects received at one time, family issues, |
| such as customer personal information, processing of | | | | health condition and others. It is therefore important that |
| orders, transcribing medical documents, copy pasting | | | | you get the services of an intermediary or a third |
| information researched for a client, editing of | | | | party who will help should problems arise and you |
| documents and transferring them from one format to | | | | have to put up a back-up plan should your outsourced |
| another and the like. All of these are performed using | | | | service provider fails. |
| a personal computer at the home of the | | | | There are benefits and risks in outsourcing offshore |
| subcontracted service provider. The home based | | | | jobs and it is up to your company to balance the risks |
| service provider communicates to the client company | | | | and benefits. If you are interested to outsource your |
| via the internet. | | | | data entry jobs either onshore or offshore you may |
| The threats and risks of outsourcing data entry work | | | | check some data entry programs in the country such |
| are the following: | | | | as National Data Entry. Their subscribers are trained |
| 1. Data Protection | | | | data entry specialist and they come from different |
| It is important that the service providers you employ | | | | parts of the world such as Southeast Asia. |
| have very healthy data security practices and they | | | | |