5 Advantages to Outsourcing Your IT

If your business has an IT technician on staff, then you know how busy they are, and how good they are at attending to every computer issue. In-house IT techs are known for quickly fixing IT issues, but as good as they are, even the best tech is not 100% reliable. Where in-house technicians fall short, outsourcing your IT services can make up for it.

Here are five ways that outsourcing your IT needs with Computerware can complement your in-house IT team and save you money.

Saving the Cost of Onboarding
A growing business will require expanding your network, which requires adding more IT staff to maintain it. Before you start working the "help wanted" advertising circuit, you should consider outsourcing your IT services with Computerware. It has been estimated that the cost of onboarding a new employee at $8 an hour can add up to $9,444.47 per year, when insurance, taxes, and other hiring expenses are considered. Computerware has no signup fees included with our IT service.

You Get Experienced Help
One of the difficulties that come from hiring new technicians is finding someone with the right amount of experience. Sure, you can always save money by hiring someone that lacks the amount of experience required to provide the training, but that will take valuable time, and the more time the training takes means the more money it will cost. Outsourcing your IT needs to Computerware is essentially like onboarding a fully trained technician without having to deal with training.

Scheduling is No Longer an Issue
If you're a small business, then you have likely experienced the shortcomings of having only one IT technician on staff. What happens when your technician uses their vacation time? Or who will cover the downed server if your technician gets sick? You may have the brightest IT technician in the world, but even they need to take time off, leaving a gap in your coverage. Instead of hiring another full time technician to cover the few days your tech is out, you can save money and partner with us to compliment your current technician's workload. Our staff is large enough that we have 100% coverage and can help your business anytime.

Save on Insurance Premiums
It's enjoyable to have a large staff, but as is the nature with everything fun, insurance requirements can kill the fun. A large staff will be more expensive because more people means greater liability with property insurance, and more coverage will be needed for medical and unemployment insurance, along with all the other insurances. One way that outsourcing your IT with Computerware can help is by decreasing the number of people on your staff, thus doing the same to your insurance bills.

More Money Freed up for Payroll
The most attractive feature of outsourcing your IT with Computerware can be seen with saving money when it comes to payroll. The bottom line is that it's considerably less expensive to have us remotely take care of your IT needs than it is to have yet another employee on staff collecting a regular paycheck.

For many business owners, the biggest hang up with outsourcing one's IT service is the mental block that comes from no longer having a technician by your side when something goes wrong. Making a major change in workflow like this seems difficult, but in actuality, outsourcing your IT service with Computerware will solve your problems faster because help is just a phone call away, and we can quickly remote into your PC. Whereas with in-house IT, you will have to work around breaks, days off, and the line of other workers getting serviced.

Can you think of any other advantages from outsourcing your IT service? There will be more room in the office and less employee drama. The office will also be quieter and the lines to the bathroom won't be as long. All of these advantages are great, but the best benefit to outsourcing IT service is that you will have money freed up to hire new revenue-generating personnel!

To learn more about how outsourcing your IT can save you time and money, call Computerware at (703) 821-8200.