Outsourcing

For the past 10 years, we have seen outsourcing in companies, in government, and even in homes.

Companies like DHL, Singapore Airlines, Nokia, Apple, outsourced their unimportant function like call centres, repair services, cleaning services to local or other companies.

Government sectors, like army outsourced their food catering, security services and call centres to private operators.

Closer to home, families outsource their childcare services, financial planning, and buying of food and running errands and even finding a partner.

As in all things, there are pros and cons to it. For my situation, I remained unconvinced that families must outsource financial planning to insurance agents, financial planners. This is because there is no one, absolutely no one more familiar about your own finance that you yourself. As such I have always rejected the services of financial planner from any company. As for child care, I believe that there is no one who can take better care of babies other than their own parent. Not a trusted nanny, reliable maid or even a grandparent or relative. This is because as parent, sometimes, we get irritated by our own babies as well. At least, we will be sorry to our baby and get it over quickly. But who can predict what a trusted nanny or a reliable maid can do in a moment of anger, frustration or irritation. On top of this, this nanny or maid may also have their own family or relationship problem no one knows.