Rural Outsourcing - An Emerging It Service

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Rural outsourcing refers to a method in which jobs are transferred away from higher cost urban areas to lower cost rural areas. With increased level of salaries to the employees, real estate prices, and high attrition rates has escalated costs incurred by the BPO industry.

Benefits of Rural outsourcing:

Lower cost of operations
Producing loyal and efficient employee base
Lower operating costs
Absence of communicational or cultural barriers
Lower attrition rates
Proximity to the clients
Shifting the main business of the rural areas from agriculture to service oriented
No time zone problems, thus ensuring rapid services
Politically more acceptable

Disadvantages of Rural outsourcing:

Lack of availability of financial resources and IT skills
Lesser experience than the giant outsourcing firms

So it is quite feasible that operations such as data entry services which don’t require very high level of IT skills can be outsourced ...
... to the rural areas.

It is without doubt that the trend of outsourcing abroad isn’t going to disappear anytime soon but looking for virtual team members in small towns, in the form of rural outsourcing would be a triple advantage for your firm-good workers, good for small towns and lower costs.As a matter of fact data processing in India is mostly done in the rural regions.

In this way the data entry in India is shifting from Urban areas to Rural Areas lets see what shifts next!!