Recently we had a fun in our company, a corporate party devoted to the continuous grows and success of the company. The idea of having a party was brought to my mind from the first days of working here and what was difficult for me is to decide what kind of party to organize. The only thing I knew for sure – we should make it fun for everybody.
So, how did that go!? After hot working Friday all employees set off to the cottage with neon lights and cool sound, where our party was to be held. I was responsible for the entertaining program – that was a kind of fun to think out or to find some cute games. I laughed to tears when imagined my colleagues playing these games. No wonder that they were amazed by what I asked them to do, for example: 3 guys and 3 girls took part in this game; they guys with their eyes closed were to find a small thing (clothes-peg) fixed on girl’s body. Imagine the COO doing that!! We also had all night dance and I even did not expect from our bosses to be so active and to dance with such great enthusiasm. I ’ve never seen them so childish and so much laughing. And, by the way, we left our party place only in the morning!
In closing, I would say, we know how to make great job, but we also know how to rest.
P.S. the most favorite music theme of the party: Voodoo People (Pendulum rmx)

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Leading outsourcing providers have always been targeting huge companies, monsters, understand their needs and then arranging a system somewhere in India to meet their needs. With the market saturation and continuing growth of the industry new challenging companies started to appear targeting their activities towards work with the medium-sized and even small customers.

Time when start-up can use foreign talent and thus make the company competitive is a reality now. Imagine the company that has only $50.000 at start and can spend those $$ on two man-hours of development in the USA or 40 man-hours in Belarus or Russia – what will you choose?

Many small businesses still ignore the possibility of outsourcing because of the risks and time involved setting up a beneficial relationship with another firm. But the potential profits may make the risk worthwhile. The new generation of outsourcing-consulting companies should appear now! Those that will be able to organize effective interaction with the business owners: explaining them the benefits of outsourcing and setting up the relationship with the offshore outsourcing provider. According to InformationWeek Research’s most recent Priorities survey of 100 small and 100 midsize companies, 9% of small businesses and 6% of midsize businesses say implementing or increasing offshore outsourcing was on their radar for this year.

The growing number of consultants with offshoring experience is growing quickly, allowing companies who do not have the size or resources to devote full time employees for offshoring management the opportunity to get into the game.  As the number of offshoring consultants grow, competition increases and both the services they offer and costs they charge improve. 

Silicon.com Reports:

Small businesses are likely to get the same purported benefits from outsourcing as large ones, including low costs, competitive advantage and the ability to focus on core business.

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