CEOs prefer to keep dollars in Australia

24.01.2006
A survey of 200 Australian CEOs has found most Australian businesses prefer to keep their outsourcing dollars onshore.

A survey by Talent2 reports respondent CEOs said it made sense to outsource work to specialist companies, particularly payroll services.

But an overwhelming majority of the respondents (85 percent) said they preferred to outsource work domestically.

A further 41 percent of those surveyed said they already outsource payroll services, 27 percent outsource the human resources department while 27 percent have already outsourced their call centers.

There is no breakup in the figures though as to how many of the current contracts are outsourced to Australian-based companies.

Lee Ward, general manager of global outsourcing and infrastructure services for Unisys Asia Pacific, said there is a clear move by Australian enterprises to offshore work and outsource work domestically.