Excellent people in the DR can work remote for your company for "half the cost" of your USA location.
And, the DR is only 2 hours from Miami!
The Youtube video at bottom of this page shows Nicole who works remote from the Dominican Republic for a company in New York. She works through our HR company, not from a virtual assistant or outsourcing company.
By working remote from the DR Nicole's cost is half of a comparable employee in the mainland USA.
Nicole and the USA manager see and talk to each other every day over video on Microsoft Teams. They use video call with screen sharing to make it nearly the same as if Nicole is sitting next to her USA manager!
To start, we are not any type of virtual assistant company, nor a call center or outsourcing business. Before explaining our particular business plan it is important to understand what happens when using offshore companies like a virtual assistant or outsourcing company.
They hire people as their employees to control and rent to American companies as low cost, remote, expendable staff.
The workers know the offshore company is their employer and they are rented & expendable to the American companies. Nobody is going to give their 100% and be committed to a job in this scenario.
This fact also explains why most American companies that try offshore rent-a-worker services cancel when realizing the failures outweigh the benefit of lower cost.
Let's compare to our business model:
Imagine you hire Nancy Gomez in the USA through an HR company like ADP or Paychex. On paper Nancy is employed by the HR company while she fits in and works for you same as a loyal long term career employee.
Nancy speaks fluent English & Spanish, is college educated and has impressive job & computer skills. Yet, her cost to work remote for your company could be 50% less than at your USA location.
We are similar except our HR company and the people are located in the Dominican Republic where the cost for an excellent office worker can be 50% less than inside the USA. The reason for cost difference is currency exchange, wage differences and none of the taxes, insurance or other overhead that make USA based employees so expensive.
Let's go through the steps:
#1 - Assume you want to hire an assistant to handle your time consuming work, or customer/sales/technical support staff, accounting, social media marketing and other office staff. And, the cost to hire quality people in the USA is too expensive.
#2 - You decide to give us a try and start with 1 person. Our Dominican HR company recruits 3 people for you to interview. All are college educated, English/Spanish and have solid job skills. In fact, many are American/Dominicans with family in the USA.
You interview and select Nancy Gomez. Our Dominican HR company hires Nancy to work on your behalf. On paper Nancy is a permanent contractor while she fits in with you same as a long term career employee.
FYI, the IRS rules that govern long term contractors only apply to American citizens, not to Nancy working remote from the DR. This means she can remain as a contractor for 20 years and grow a real career within your company without any legal connection, taxes or other employee overhead costs.
#3 - We provide a suitable laptop, high speed internet and handle HR, payroll and taxes in the Dominican Republic for Nancy to work for you remotely.
#4 - Assume Nancy starts March 1st. In the final week of February our American corporation wires money to our Dominican HR company to fund payroll for March. We are FRONTING the money to cover Nancy's payroll to work for you. On April 15th, the next month, your company reimburses our American company.
Your Company > our USA Corp > Our Dominican HR > Nancy in DR works for you
As you can see, no money flows from your company outside the USA direct to Nancy. There is no legal connection although she fits in same as your long term career employee.
Pretty Smart!
#5 - The fact that Nancy knows you think of her same as a career employee and not as if rented from a virtual assistant firm explains why she would give her 100% and want to work for you long term while we fit in the middle as her HR and payroll provider.
#6 - What types of people can be found in DR to work for you? A personal assistant who is trained to handle your time consuming work, customer, sales, technical support, accounting, bookkeeping, social media marketing and other office jobs are all very doable.
#7 - Our Dominican HR manager partners with you to help supervise the person/people we set up to work for you.
#8 - The DR is only 2 hours from Miami and same time zone as New York. Many people are American Dominicans with family in the USA. It is easy to fly to DR to spend time with your Dominican based staff, an example is coming to DR for a team Christmas party!
Using Nancy as the example, there is no long term risky contract. You can cancel at any time.
This is a shortcut to creating your own nearshore lower cost staff operation where we already have the pieces in place to make this happen.
Please scroll down to view the video below as it will answer most of your questions.
Dave Fogg - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-fogg/
(954) 464-6330 for text messaging
Chriss Contreras - DR team leader: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chriss-contreras-14080843/
If you never traveled to the Dominican Republic here are a few facts. First, the people and culture are more closely tied to the USA than any of the other countries in Caribbean or Latin America. Many people in the DR have dual citizenship with USA or have family in the USA. They grow up watching American TV and news.
The main road along the ocean in the capital city is John F. Kennedy blvd. Christopher Colombus landed in the DR so when they say he discovered America it was actually the Dominican Republic where he landed. His house is in Santo Domingo DR.
The DR has the best electric, internet, colleges and population of English speaking people than any other country close to the USA where cost to hire is low.