Five Killer Benefits of IT Outsourcing

If you are having trouble hiring or keeping IT talent, you aren’t alone. With over 40% of all IT positions currently unfilled, often the company with the best salary, greatest benefits, and fantastic work environment, effectively recruits the sharpest employees. And unfortunately, that may not be you.

As a small business owner who’s been going it alone or wants to reduce IT overhead, here are five solid reasons to move this function out of your office.

Reduce Labor Costs
Whether you have a staff of one or twenty Information Technology specialists, you must incur their salary and benefit costs. Throw in training and replacement costs and you may be looking at more than $250,000 a year! To illustrate this point, let’s look at current salary averages across the United States according to LinkedIn:

System Analyst — $72,000 per year

Network Administrator — $63,000 per year

Data Administrator — $50,000 per year

Even if you hire full-time temporary technicians, you may be disappointed in their capabilities and readiness to stay at your organization.

Hire an outside company with experienced and educated personnel that are efficient from the moment you sign the contract. All at a fraction of your annual cost.

Return Focus to Your Business

If you are the president or general manager of a small to mid-sized business, chances are you also wear the CIO hat as well. This fractional approach can be difficult on employees and almost impossible for you to drive growth.

Outsourcing frees up your time, providing you the capacity to address its challenges and grow it the way you’ve always wanted.

Guarantee Compliance and Security
Do you have someone that checks the operating systems, apps, and devices of all your employees? How do you handle BYOD? This is an arduous task and can often fall behind until you have a cyberattack that brings the need to the forefront. An outside company has a proactive approach. They provide continuous system monitoring, saving you oodles of time and possibly thousands of dollars by avoiding ransomware and/or malware attacks.

Disaster Proof Your Data
When a natural or man-made disaster strikes, your team has to deal with things like employee deaths or injuries, product losses, insurance claims, backorders, communication strategies to customers and vendors and temporary quarters for employees. The last thing you need to concern yourself with is the use of your data.

Accessing your mission-critical applications on the cloud and having an executable backup procedure is a great reason to outsource IT functionality.

Keeping Up on New Technologies
Do you have time to keep current about the hardware, software, cloud and network improvements that might impact your business? I didn’t think so.

Outsourcing to the experts who can provide recommendations based on current trends is like having an inside consultant who wants to help you avoid costly mistakes.

We are Outsourcing Experts

You can never predict when an IT staff member will quit, a virus will run rampant in your organization or a disaster will strike.

JoLee Consultants can be your trusted advisor. Our team recommends, installs and manages your technology, all the while ensuring your data is safe and always accessible.