Jo Palmer from Pointer Remote Roles on outsourcing to regional Australia.

Jo Palmer saw an emerging opportunity to reshape the outsourcing industry. Where outsourcing had traditionally used offshore personnel Jo saw the opportunity to match highly skilled and underutilised  people based in regional Australia with local businesses needing help.

She founded Pointer Remote Roles https://www.pointerremoteroles.com.au/ about 3 years ago.

In this episode we cover;

• How the business idea came to her at a BBQ when she realized that I had all these very clever girlfriends who had married farmers and were not putting their skills and experiences that they had gained over their careers before moving to farms
• Her own professional background and business experience
• How outsourcing helps businesses and business owners
• The difference in outsourcing locally vs offshore
• How local outsourcing helps local communities
• What work you should outsource and what you shouldn't
• How to go about working out what you should and shouldn't outsource
• The opportunities for living and working in regional Australia
• Stopping the  'brain drain' from regional Australia
• What business owners need to do to make the most of outsourcing
• Running a global business from anywhere
• Work flexibility
• New ways of working
• New ways of employing

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