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The Youtube video below on this page shows Isabella who works remote from the Dominican Republic for a company in New York. By working remote from DR her cost is half that of an employee in the mainland USA.
The purpose of this website is to explain the differences between renting remote/lower cost workers from offshore companies with hiring people like Isabella to work directly for your company same as a long term career employee through an HR partner company with operations in the USA and Dominican Republic.
Basically, this means eliminating offshore companies and replace them with a common sense plan to create your own nearshore lower cost staff operation be it one person or build a team.
It is important to know "we are not" an offshore call center or virtual assistant company. They hire people as their employees to control and rent to your company as remote/lower cost staff. This rent-a-worker scenario never works out good.
Most American companies that try these offshore services cancel when realizing the problems and failures outweigh the benefits of lower cost.
Here is our smarter and common sense plan to help you hire people in the Dominican Republic as "YOUR" remote/nearshore/lower cost staff.
Let's use Isabella from the video as an example: We would not hire her as OUR employee to rent to your company. Instead, we would recruit Isabella in the DR for you to interview over Zoom. Our HR partner company then hires her on your behalf.
This is similar to your hiring career employees in the USA through an HR company like ADP, except our HR company and the people are in the Dominican Republic where they can work remote for half the cost of your USA location.
We FRONT the money to cover her payroll each month where your company reimburses ours the next month.
And, this concept eliminates any risk of lawsuits from disgruntled employees.
Key Fact: When American companies rent people from offshore companies such as call centers or virtual assistant firms the workers are paid poverty wages, treated bad and they know the American companies think of them as extra and expendable.
Nobody is going to give their 100% work ethic and be loyal to a company & job in that situation. This reality helps explain the high turnover, poor quality and negative attitudes of offshore workers.
In contrast, if a person like Isabella (in the video) works for you same as a career employee through an HR partner company you and she think of each other as on the same team where it is possible to build a career working for you.
That is a totally different situation and explains how and why a person like Isabella in the DR would give her 100%, do a good job and be loyal.
Another factor is although the cost can be half that of a USA based employee you and we together are paying Isabella more than she can get at other jobs in DR. This means you/we are lifting her up to a better life and explains her desire to be loyal and work for you long term.
Steps to our Process:
Assume you need to hire people for jobs such as customer/sales support/technical support - accounting, recruiting or a personal assistant for your company leaders. Or, any job that is trainable and can be done online & phone.
A problem can be legally employing the better A Player local employees is too expensive. Due to this reality many companies are forced to hire C and D player/people because they are more affordable. Or, not hire anyone which forces company leaders to become workaholics, doing too much themselves!
Solution:
The reasons why people can work remote from DR for less than mainland USA are currency exchange rate, no payroll taxes or payroll costs, no cost for insurance & benefits, no legal employment risks and none of the overhead costs that normally come with a USA based employee.
Video call with screen sharing such as Zoom or Teams make it so a person working remote from DR ( Like Isabella in the video ) can see and talk to you Live same as if working at a desk right next to you.
For this example our American/Dominican HR company recruits English/Spanish speaking college educated people in the DR to interview with you. Assume you interview Isabella over Zoom and select her.
Our USA/DR human resources partner company hires her on your behalf.
On paper she is a contractor while the relationship is the same as Isabella being your long term career employee.
KEY: The IRS rules that govern long term use of contractors only apply to American citizens, not to people like Isabella who work remote from outside the USA.
In this example Isabella can work long term and build a full career with your company fitting in same as a loyal employee while on paper she is a remote contractor where IRS rules do not apply and there are no employee related legal risks, overhead costs or taxes.
The following flow chart will help you understand how the dots connect from your company in USA to Isabella.
Your Company > Our USA/Dominican human resources corp > Isabella in the DR works for you
She can work 10 or 20 years for you without your company paying payroll or other taxes. No cost for health or other insurance. No legal employment risk, no cost for computers, internet, no cost to recruit or hire, no cost for payrolling etc.
A key to this business model is because you and Isabella think of each other as employer/employee and on the same team this is where the loyalty and commitment to success comes from.
This cannot happen when renting people from call centers or virtual assistant companies!
We can help you hire people like Isabella for customer/sales/technical support, accounting, bookkeeping & payroll, recruiting, an assistant for company leaders or any job that can done online/phone that is trainable.
The Dominican Republic is only 2 hours from Miami, the people are American/Dominicans, bilingual English/Spanish right here in America's backyard!
We FRONT the money to cover payroll for the people set up to work for your company. Your company reimburses ours the next month.
Please view the video and contact us with any questions.
Dave Fogg - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-fogg/
Chriss Contreras - DR team leader: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chriss-contreras-14080843/
Keith Harper, CEO of A & B Talent. The picture to the right shows Keith with some of the people on his Dominican Republic remote/lower cost team. Keith flew to DR and took his DR team to a beach resort for a company retreat.
Here is Keith's written statement.
"When starting my recruiting business I relied on an offshore RPO in India for lower cost recruiting support. I connected with DJ Fogg on LinkedIn and after some time signed up with his Dominican operation.
I started with 2 DR based recruiter trainees. Two years later I have 25 people working through DJ's Dominican company.
Of the 25 people on my Dominican team, one is my personal assistant, a few handle relations with my customers, there are full recruiters and candidate sourcers and my accounting & bookkeeping is handled by people in DR through David's company.
David works with me like a true partner and is always on the lookout for my best interest.
If things keep going as they are, next year my Dominican team will grow to over 40 people.
On the date I typed this reference, I am flying to the DR to take my Dominican team to a beach resort for a company retreat. I think of them as my employees, not as rented from offshore RPOs or call centers.
My cost ranges from 50% to 75% less than hiring comparable people in the USA and this fact is a make it or break it reality for my company. I simply cannot afford to hire 100% of my staff from inside the USA. Hiring people who can work remote for 50% to 75% less is essential for my company to survive and have enough profit margin to re-invest and grow my business.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-l-harper-534b865/
