How much can an offshore team save your business?
The honest answer is that savings depend on the role, the hours and what you're paying locally today. What we can do is show you how the maths works so you can run it against your own numbers before you commit to anything.
01Compare total cost, not hourly rate
A local hire costs you more than their salary: superannuation, leave loading, payroll tax, recruitment fees, desk space, equipment and the management time to keep them productive. An offshore hire through WorkmodeX comes as one monthly figure that already includes employment costs. Compare like with like and the gap is usually much wider than a rate-versus-rate comparison suggests.
02Where the savings actually come from
Most of it is the cost-of-living difference in the Philippines, not a lower standard of work. On top of that you avoid recruitment fees on every hire, you avoid entity setup and local compliance costs, and you stop paying senior people to do work that should sit with a coordinator or administrator.
03The capacity dividend
The saving clients talk about most isn't the invoice — it's what their local team stops doing. When order processing, artwork checks and supplier chasing move offshore, your account managers get their selling hours back. That's revenue, not just cost reduction.
04What to be realistic about
There's a ramp period. For the first few weeks you invest management time, and output builds from there. Clients who plan for that get to full value faster than clients who expect day-one parity.
Ready when you are.
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