The SME outsourcing demand:
In an ideal world, small to medium sized enterprises would operate remote offshore outsourcing offices in countries like India which would operate as additions and extensions of their offices back home. This would give SME's access to low costing, highly skilled professionals that would work on a long term basis, do so in a professional manner and from a controlled office environment.

Why SME's outsourcing cannot achieve this:
The problem for SME's looking to outsource is however that unlike their larger counterparts they don't have the time, money or resource required to open up an offshore outsourcing office in a country like India. Furthermore, the scale on which SME's want to outsource is dwarfed in comparison to MNC's which makes the idea of an offshore outsourcing office simply not cost effective.

How VirtualEmployee.com meets the SME outsourcing demand:
Outsourcing with VirtualEmployee.com is in effect just like opening your very own offshore office in India. There are four key aspects to how VirtualEmployee.com meets the SME outsourcing demand:

• 1. Outsourcing - with VirtualEmployee.com SME's outsource and so they get access to highly skilled, low costing professionals.
• 2. Hiring an employee - with VirtualEmployee.com SME's hire dedicated employees who can work on a long term basis. Clients do not hire unprofessional/unsupervised short term freelancers. The key is that a Virtual Employee works for you just like any other local employee. Your employee can work the same hours as you, work directly with you, communicate with, collaborate with you, will report to you and will take all their instructions for you. With VirtualEmployee.com you are hiring an employee, albeit one that works for you remotely.
• 3. Office extension - in addition to outsourcing and hiring an employee you also get your very own office extension in India. Your Virtual Employee works from VirtualEmployee.com's office where they are provided with all the latest hardware and infrastructure. Furthermore HR executives monitor your employee working at all times and so you know your employee is working from a professional office environment. And managers are present to help resolve any problems for you or your employee.
• 4. Scale - SME's with VirtualEmployee.com can outsource on a small scale and do so at a highly cost effective price.

In summary outsourcing with VirtualEmployee.com enables SME's to achieve the same results they would be opening their own offshore outsourcing office in India; a) low cost b) dedicated employees and not short term unprofessional freelancers c) a professional and controlled office environment. The only difference is that the former option is unfeasible but the latter highly cost effective.