Monday, October 6, 2008

Outsource Your Dirty Canadian Work

Outsourcing our daily activities helps us save time and at the same time get all our household work done. There are various organizations which offer services to help people get their household chores done quickly and at an affordable price. In Canada, there are many companies which offer these services. However, lack of promotions keeps these services confined to a certain area or town. However, with many websites launching services to list these services, it may be time that such service providers are brought to a common platform. There are many Canada job postings that we can see nowadays advertising jobs starting from Engineering, Plumbing, Electrician and Gardening. Going forward there may be other home improvement services which will be listed. Some people do these jobs as freelance or as summer jobs. The web as a common platform will enable them to bring their services to a broader audience.

The outsourcing of daily chores has bought a new dimension in which daily chores are done. It is brining smiles in the faces of husbands and wife’s and allowing them to spend more time with their families. All that needs to be done is log-in to any of the websites which act as a platform for outsourced service providers. People who require any service have to post their projects online. Freelancers place their bids on the projects. One of the bids is chosen and the work is executed as per the terms of the bid. The projects can also be marked as featured which will attract more bids from established freelancers.

Though outsourcing is more related to software services and related work, outsourcing of daily chores is quickly catching the fancy of many people across the developed economies of Canada, US and Europe. Since the service offered is free of cost, it attracts many people to post their projects. People who offer their services have to pay a small commission to the sites for acting as a mediator. Since most of these sites offer escrow services they act as a mediator between the project provider and the service provider. Established service providers also have rankings which helps them to get quality work at a higher value. Though the trend is quite new it is seeing a substantial amount of traction from various quarters. Though there were websites which provided one or few of home improvement services, all services under one umbrella is a relatively new trend.

Some of the leading websites in the business have already got a long list of customers and service providers. Some others are trying to get to that point. Since the trend is new, there are many websites which are lining-up to offer all these services. However, there is enough space for many such businesses to sustain simultaneously. Many people who have availed these services say that this is one of the best ways to get their daily chores done. Many others are slowly joining to this group. It is only a matter of time that a good percentage of home improvement jobs will be booked online.