We bring You Exclusive Recruitment and Workforce Building Solutions through our Employer of Record (EOR) Services. Our offering includes guaranteed access to high-quality, full-time in-office or home-based talented personnel to meet your business service needs.
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What is Offshoring?
Offshoring is when a company establishes an exclusive-use technical or administration services work centre, in a country that provides access to more cost-effective infrastructure and skills.
Benefits of Offshoring:
- Decreased overheads
- Increased competitive advantages in the marketplace
- Access to high-calibre expertise
- Improved quality of services
What is Outsourcing?
Outsourcing is a strategy primarily used by companies to reduce and control costs. It allows them to grow competitively within the marketplace. Outsourcing involves employing external contractors to fulfil business requirements and processes, without incurring establishment and maintenance costs.
What are Employer of Record (EOR) services?
EOR Services are labour outsourcing services whereby an EOR oversees the hiring requirements and oversees the subsequent payroll processes. By using an EOR, a company can more easily expand into an overseas location as well as hire highly proficient local employees.
Benefits of EOR services:
- Decreased Costs
- Local Legal, Tax and Labour Compliance
- Save Time
- Ensure Skills
Why Offshore with us?
For over 40 years, the Key Recruitment Group has successfully delivered Recruitment Services in South Africa. Through the expertise of our insightful and experienced team, we provide tailor-made offshoring staff solutions. Our EOR Service is reputed to be highly efficient, effective, and well-managed. Additionally, we are one of the few outsourcing specialists in South Africa that offer this type of professional and cost-effective office and home-based bespoke solutions for local and internationally-based businesses.
Why Offshore to South Africa?
According to input from over 700 enterprise contract centres in the latest Ryan Strategic Advisory Review, 2022, South Africa (tied with India) is the most favoured offshore delivery point worldwide.
Contract highly qualified and skilled personnel, proficient in English. With additional accessibility to linguistic capabilities such as French, German, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese.
Significant cost savings (30 – 60%) based on favourable exchange rates and lower employment costs.
Employment of enthusiastic staff, with a low employee turnover.
Access to first-world infrastructure and management skills.
Ideally located for decreasing costs and reducing company risks associated with strategic company expansion.
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We offer a free consultation to discuss your strategy requirements
BUILD A TEAM
How Key Recruitment EOR Services helps you build a team
We will help you every step of the way. This means helping to create a job description, recruiting the best candidates, onboarding, monitoring and managing staff and payroll oversight.
OUR STEP-BY-STEP PROCESS
1. Consultation
We consult with you to understand your specific business needs thereby establishing what bespoke services we can offer you.
2. Creating a job description
We align existing job descriptions with the identified type of staffing arrangements and requirements that best suit your needs. The practical rollout of the job description is also assessed to ensure that it dovetails with the expected daily operational structure (monitoring protocols, software…etc.)
3. Recruiting the best candidate/s
- Expect a 2-3-week recruitment process turnaround time, whereby we ensure that we find you the best candidate/s related to the crafted job description.
- Recruitment of specialist skilled staff might take slightly longer.
We will provide you with selected resumes. You, as the client, will approve and have the final say as to which specific candidate/s is/are employed.
4. Onboarding
Once a candidate has been appointed we assist in the onboarding process.
5. Monitoring
We will agree upfront on what monitoring systems you as a client want to have. Thereafter, implement them accordingly.
6. Payroll/Invoicing
We pay the staff and invoice you the client once a month in advance. Our invoices to you are payable in full within 14 days of receipt.
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Home or office-based staff?
Do you require home or office-based staff?
There are various factors which need to be weighed up when deciding to use home or office-based staff. The primary question to ask is how will your company operate most effectively and efficiently?
Home based
Office based
Cost
Home-based staff require lower infrastructure costs and therefore offer a reduced cost and lower risk employment solution.
Through our established relationships with South African Property Agents, we are able to assist with setting up an exclusive, competitively priced, fit-for-purpose office on your behalf.
Infrastructure
The limited infrastructure required is as defined by client employment specifications.
Facilities on offer include world-class offshore infrastructure including inter alia:
- Individual workstations
- Meeting rooms (training, board..)
- Reliable internet connection
- IT security systems
- Physical security measures
- Air-conditioning
- Refreshment station
Security and system requirements
- Any company requirement for staff to work on specific platforms is limited to security protocols being set up on home systems
- When requested we are able to supply software to monitor staff activity
Office based set ups are more suitable for businesses that require, stringent data security, face to face interaction and a very stable infrastructure with additional backup systems if required.
Examples of specific roles for home and office based work
- SEO Specialist
- Web Developer
- Copy Writer
- Digital marketing specialist
- Graphic Designer
- Bookkeeper
- Virtual Assistant
- Software teams that require face-to-face collaboration
- Customer and Techincial Support (inbound or outbound)
- Teams that require supervision, such as:
– Data input or capture teams
– Accounting or Financial Admin teams.
– Import Export Teams
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ROLES AND PRICIING
What roles are best suited for offshoring and what wages are typically paid for these personnel?
FINANCE AND
ADMINISTRATION
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
AND SUPPORT
MARKETING
AND SALES
The table below depicts the average cost savings that can be achieved by UK Clients using South African staff supported by our EOR/PEO (International Professional Employer Organisation) services.
The cost comparison is between the annual salary and hourly rate of South African (ZAR) staff versus staff based in the United Kingdom (GBP). These are estimations of salary costs for specific roles, which will vary depending on the job description and experience required.
The South African staff costs include all costs associated with employing staff. As well as workmen’s compensation, unemployment fund provision and skills levy.
FAQ’s
Why South Africa?
- According to input from over 700 enterprise contract centres in the latest Ryan Strategic Advisory Review, 2022, South Africa (tied with India) is the most favoured offshore delivery point worldwide.
- Contract highly qualified and skilled personnel, proficient in English. With additional accessibility to linguistic capabilities such as French, German, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese.
- Significant cost savings (30 – 60%) based on favourable exchange rates and lower employment costs.
- Employment of enthusiastic staff, with a low employee turnover.
- Access to first-world infrastructure and management skills.
- Ideally located for decreasing costs and reducing company risks associated with strategic company expansion.
What tasks are suited to Offshoring?
When appropriate expertise is recruited, almost any task that does not require a person to be present in a specific country is suitable for offshoring.
Can we hire people on a part-time basis or freelance basis?
No, our EOR / PEO service is associated with the provision of skilled individuals or teams for full-time remote employment.
How do we know if we need to hire office or home-based staff?
We consult with you to understand your specific business needs. Based on our needs assessment we will advise if home or office-based staff are best suited to your requirements.
Who provides the technical equipment and software?
For office-based staff, we provide the basic setup including furniture, technical equipment such as personal computers, laptops, phones, printers and the Internet. The client is responsible for all equipment, software licenses etc., that are specific to their business. Home-based staff technical equipment and software are as per your company policy and provided by your company accordingly.
How do we monitor staff remotely?
Staff can be managed by an office manager or they can be tracked using employee monitoring software (e.g. Time Doctor or Workpuls). Talk to us to discuss the various options and appropriate level of functionality available to you.
How do payments and invoicing work?
We pay the staff and invoice you the client once a month in advance. Our invoices to you are payable in full within 14 days of receipt.
What hours do the staff work?
The staff will work your hours. Usually, this is between the hours of 08:00 and 18:00.
How long does it take to hire a staff member?
Expect a 2-3-week recruitment process turnaround time, whereby we ensure that we find you the best candidate/s related to the crafted job description. Hiring specialist skills staff can take slightly longer.
Who manages the staff?
All HR and related administrative functions are managed by us.
Do South African-based Staff work on UK Public Holidays?
Not unless you want them to. The staff match the public holidays of the companies in the countries they serve. This means that staff work on South African public holidays if it is a regular working day in the client’s country.
How do I talk to the staff every day?
You can use a variety of software such as Google Hangouts, Zoom or Skype. It’s quite common for clients to be in constant contact with staff throughout the day.