Over the past recent years, hiring an outsourcing company has become a global business phenomenon. Companies from small boutiques to big brands have turned to outsourced jobs to cut operation costs resulting in an increase profitability and more customer intake. The South-East Asia region is the most involved in the outsourced boom when it comes to offshore jobs. With English being taught as a compulsory secondary language, cultural barriers are becoming less and less distinct and working alongside foreign workers is not the most impossible thing to achieve anymore. For those overseas, the chance to work with global corporations can only mean an economical improvement. For those already living in the company’s original geographical area, it could mean potentially being made redundant. Either way, here are the most popular offshore staff jobs on the market that is likely to be outsourced.

1. Computer Programming and IT jobs

Outsourcing it services is the most popular outsourced work out of the rest. According to statistics released by Bureau of Labor, computer programming is the number one job that is most likely to be outsourced to SEA countries such as India and the Philippines, where competitive software developers, computer programmers and IT analysts are more than happy to charge 1/10th of the labor cost of the average Australian/American wage. There is also usually little time difference involved, meaning that working alongside overseas counterparts has next to no difficulty with the power of the Internet and video streaming such as Skype. Business giants such as Microsoft, Dell […]