Relocating an offshore employee to Australia adds 12 per cent super to an $83,466 median salary. The ABS has just published the number, and the super alone costs more than leaving them where they are.
Most advice on how to vet and choose offshore staffing agencies in Australia lists ten criteria. The ATO's phoenix figures say the eleventh is solvency.
The difference between staffing and a BPO is one clause: who is allowed to hire your own team member. Treasury's non-compete bill makes it worth reading.
Victoria said work from home would be protected in law from 1 September. On 10 September the Legislative Council sent the Bill to a select committee instead, and there is still no right and no obligation.
The ATO does not make you pay super on a non-resident employee working outside Australia. That is a clean rule with a messy consequence: the 12 percent you never spend is not margin, it is the budget for employing that person properly somewhere else.