Five Benefits of Outsourcing HR
What can HR consultancies offer your business, what services can they offer and how might they be relevant to you? Here are five reasons why you should consider outsourcing to an HR consultancy.
Five Benefits of Outsourcing HR
‘You don’t know what you don’t know’ – an expression made famous by Donald Rumsfeld at a Department of Defense news briefing back in 2002, and HR can fall into that category for many managers. It can be hard to know exactly what HR consultants do that’s relevant to you at any one particular time in your business.
HR consultancies can offer a huge range of services, stretching from drawing up employment contracts and offer letters, devising salary structures and bonus schemes through to supporting performance and absence management, and the all-important employment law advice, with an awful lot more in the middle.
Here are five reasons why you should consider outsourcing to an HR consultancy:
1. Outsourcing HR is more efficient and cost-effective
Making the move to outsourcing HR is a bit like merrily going about your accounts in a manual and long-winded way until an accountant shows you the super time-efficient process online. And with HR, it’s not just about getting things done more efficiently and cost effectively, it’s also about protecting you and your business from a potentially damaging situation, or even deciding whether a calculated risk is worth taking to move your business forward.
2. Your time is precious
Regardless of the size of your company, all business owners know the frustration of time spent working on non-revenue generating activities, particularly ones they may not fully understand, and certainly don’t enjoy. Using the expertise of a HR company frees you up to do the really important things and run your business without distractions.
3. It can be difficult to keep up with new developments
Managers can feel under-informed and overwhelmed by the continually changing employment law. Just recently, we have seen two significant developments in the employment arena. Fit for Work is a new initiative to help employers better understand and manage sickness absence within their business and will eventually provide access to occupational health support. The new ‘shared parental leave’ entitlement potentially benefits parents of babies due after 5th April 2015. It’s almost impossible for non HR professionals to keep abreast of all the new developments, and the danger is, that an unwitting error can land you in an employment tribunal. No one wants that.
4. Larger companies need more HR support
The bigger your company, the more time and effort you need to invest in HR management. Taking care of the details that make a business legally compliant can be a real drain on an HR department.
At Gravitas HR we support all sizes of business, from start-ups looking to take on their first employee, to much larger businesses who may need extra support for their already-busy HR team for an urgent project or policy update. Each client gets a service tailored to their business needs, whatever their circumstances may be.
5. There are a variety of options available to suit your needs
Knowing when to outsource HR, or exactly how much support you need is not always easy. Whether you are the owner/manager of a small business or the HR Manager of a larger one, you will undoubtedly need some form of external HR support at one time or another – either a one-off project or a simple monthly package to keep you covered at all times.
You may be a small business owner hiring your first few employees, or an HR Manager who would rather be actively engaging with your staff, than spending time away keeping yourself up-to-date with the latest employment laws.
If you would like to arrange a no-obligation discussion about your HR needs, please contact us on 01604 763494 or fill in the contact form here.
