{"id":266881,"date":"2026-02-04T08:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/266881\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T08:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:35:08","slug":"kpmg-australia-to-outsource-200-roles-to-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/266881\/","title":{"rendered":"KPMG Australia to outsource 200 roles to the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;From finance and healthcare to real estate, technology, creative, and retail sectors, outsourcing now plays a strategic role in scaling teams, filling skill gaps, and supporting rapid innovation across core and non-core business functions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The situation in Australia is reflected overseas. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.demandsage.com\/outsourcing-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Data cited by DemandSage<\/a> revealed that 92% of G2000 companies have active IT outsourcing contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 300,000 jobs are outsourced from the United States, contributing to a global outsourcing market valued at around $85.6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from cost-cutting, there are other reasons why companies are outsourcing roles, <a href=\"https:\/\/corporatefinanceinstitute.com\/resources\/management\/outsourcing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Corporate Finance Institute<\/a>. They include:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tFocusing more on the company&#8217;s core competencies, and thus improving its competitive advantages by outsourcing time-consuming processes to external companies&#13;<br \/>\n\tFreeing up internal resources and using the resources for other purposes&#13;<br \/>\n\tMitigating risk by sharing risks with external parties and building meaningful partnerships&#13;<br \/>\n\tImproving flexibility and efficiency by delegating responsibilities that are difficult to manage and control to external companies&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Planning effective outsourcing initiatives<\/p>\n<p>For organisations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/au\/specialisation\/workplace-health-and-safety\/qantas-announces-2000-job-losses-as-it-outsources-ground-handling-operations\/240536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">planning to outsource roles<\/a>, Jennifer Dublino, an expert on business operations, outlined five steps where employers can start:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;From finance and healthcare to real estate, technology, creative, and retail sectors, outsourcing now plays a strategic role&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1144,30760,111,43,139,69,32656],"class_list":{"0":"post-266881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-human-resources","9":"tag-kpmg","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-outsourcing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}