As elders would say “Time is the most valuable resource.” Indeed, time is the most valuable resource as you cannot bring back or regain time once again. Once time has passed, you can’t do anything about it. Time is very important to any matter, including businesses and generating profit. Time is the most valuable factor that is surely cannot be neglected, reason why outsourcing tasks are very rampant nowadays. One of the most chosen locations for task outsourcing is India. Being located in a strategic area, India is being chosen by many companies headquartered around the world as its time zone difference was just perfect and timely.

What You Should Know About the Time Difference?
It is truly a fact that countries around the world follow several time zones. India, for example, follows the Indian Standard Time (IST) (UTC +5:30). Countries on the other parts of the world is different from that of India. The US Eastern Standard Time (New York, Washington D.C., Boston) is 10 and a half hours behind of IST. The US Mountain Time (Salt Lake City, Denver, Calgary CA) is 5 and a half hours behind of IST. The Middle East is 2 and a half hours behind, Australia (except Perth) is 4 hours ahead, Singapore and Hong Kong is two and a half hours ahead, Tokyo and Seoul is 3 and a half hours ahead, and Europe is 5 and a half hours behind. With these difference in time, it may be difficult to an outsource team to manage their tasks, but as they say, there are always a positive side to anything.

The Usefulness of Time Difference

Excellent Customer Service:
The Indian Standard Time has been proven to be advantageous the outsourcing countries as they were able in providing non-stop and uninterrupted services to their clientele. Companies always aim to offer their customers just reliable and trusted service so quality customer service is now becoming a huge demand to the industry.

Uninterrupted Services:
Businesses and companies can be able to deliver continued services and support all year round, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Each country has also its own culture, customs and traditions that follow, so holiday schedules might vary country by country. This means that companies can be able to provide services to their customers the whole year even domestically while everyone are getting their part of the holidays.

Better Onsite and Offsite Team Management:
It is now becoming a trend to large companies, especially the tech ones, to have an onsite and offsite team that are able to work on different tasks while being unified. Onsite teams work in the company headquarters and work on the usual hours of 8 AM to 5 PM on the task requirements they got from their client, and the processing takes place on outsource companies located on countries like India. When the data arrives in India, it would be already morning in there. Then the Indian team will work on the project with their usual hours too, and send it back to the headquarters once they are done with it. It will be again morning at the headquarters when they get the processed data from India, and they will finish it and sends an update to the client. This type of work can render a brilliant work management.

Increased efficiency and productivity:
This type of work routine that requires sending of data back and forth can yield increased work productivity, as the project would be finished in just a short time, hence giving you more time for new task acceptance.

Highly Economical:
People in countries like India are always game for night work shifts. People in there can be also paid with much lesser costs since the cost of living there is significantly lower than those in developed countries. Being able to work night shifts can be very useful on the daytime shifts as well to better produce and assist to the needs of another team in any country that has a different time zone, to be more productive without too much costs implicated.

Time difference between countries can be very useful to outsourcing companies, given that it would be managed with utmost care and eagerness. The secret to success in task outsourcing is just proper planning and tremendous amount of research.

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