Outsourcing, in its simplicity, is letting a third party do some of the work you usually do but is not your main job, or your core business.
Outsourcing is practiced at home. And here are some of them:
1. We hire a neighbor to wash our clothes on weekends.
2. We hire father in law’s carpenters to fix our stairs
3. We hire a teenage neighbor to clean some floor and bathroom tiles in our house.
4. I pay my nephews to wash my car
This is better than keeping a housemaid. But it does not mean that we are too lazy to do the household chores. We know how to do these things (except for the carpentry job). But the laundry girl needs money for her tuition fees, the teenage boy has to earn for his poor family, and my nephews want money for extra allowance. We don’t want them begging for money so it’s a win-win situation for all of us.
My wife and I knows that when the time comes for us to migrate to the US, we can no longer avail of these outsourcing services at home. The outsourced workers are in Asia so we have to do the chores ourselves. Or else it would be very expensive.
7 comments:
Ayos! I learned a new termed in such a way..
If only we, Pinoys all over would be willing to take part in this practical idea of reaching out (esp in this highly critical time)..oh, what a wonderful planet it would have been :)
Don't worry. It is true that you will have to do a lot of the chores yourself. However, in the US, machines will do the laundry, dishwashing, and car washing for you. No need to worry about outsourcing those things. You can even outsource the ironing to the local laundromat.
But as with all things these days, all of the above will cost you. It will be up to you and your wife to determine what chores you will be willing to do yourselves for the sake of achieving your life goals.
this is actually the reason I always give out when my mom tells me that I don't do laundry. I always give her the analogy of Multi-national companies now doing outsourcing to be able to focus what the company does best and outsource those which is outside its core business.
But that's only because I really don't do laundry...hehehe
I never thought about outsourcing that way. Funny how these new terms are buzzwords for our normal day-to-day activities. Next up they'll have a business term for Filipino time.
Peace.
you'll be migrating? kelan? so mababawasan pa ang badminton group? hehe.
parang ang tagal ko hindi nakabisita dito. musta po? :)
helping the penurious in an excellent way is what you're doing kuy! that's great! so brilliant of you! i sometimes feel guilty giving money to the needy ones except for the disabled when in fact they are capable of doing such as the aforesaid chores to earn money to bolster their needs.anyhoo, kuy, do you have a flickr account? i do have one and i want you to check my superb shots kuy! hahaha. kidding. i'm now enjoying at photography not anymore at life's online journal. hahaha. you can view my photstream at this url:
http://flickr.com/people/25332010@N04/
enjoy!
hehehe.
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