{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Last2First Podcast","title":"How To Cut Your Labor Costs Up To 70% With Nearshore Talent | Remotely+ | Last2First","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1374,"description":"Labor is one of the biggest costs in this industry. In Part 1 of this three-part series, Jason Burns sits down with Steve Schoeffler and Matt Cohen, co-founders of Remotely+, to break down how nearshore talent from Central and South America can cut hiring costs by up to 70%.\nLearn more or find talent: https://www.remotelyplus.com\nRemotely+ places bilingual, screened, and vetted remote professionals from countries like Colombia, Panama, Honduras, Bolivia, and Argentina. What sets it apart from traditional offshore staffing is time zone alignment, so your team works your hours instead of the graveyard shift, savings of up to 70% versus hiring the same role onshore, elite professionals with high retention, no long-term contracts with fast replacements if a hire isn't the right fit, and dedicated performance coaches who run weekly check-ins. Roles commonly placed include customer support, sales, bookkeeping, marketing, dispatch, and other back-office tasks, making it a fit for logistics, warehousing, manufacturing, and any operation looking to reduce overhead without sacrificing quality.\nMatt Cohen spent 28 years in the promotional products space and used nearshore talent for nearly a decade before selling his company in 2025. Steve Schoeffler built and scaled large HR and staffing firms, selling one to private equity in 2018. Together with logistics operator Mike Frankel, they founded Remotely+ to bring nearshore staffing to the small and mid-sized companies the big agencies overlook.\nIn this episode, they cover why the real cost of labor isn't the wage but the turnover that never shows up on your P&L, how COVID permanently changed trust in remote work, and why once operators make the switch, they don't go back. This is Part 1. In Part 2, the founders get into the economics and exactly how the savings break down.\nListen to more episodes of the Last2First Podcast, and find the full video version on the Last2First YouTube channel.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/GXEfemdOctPhLy5xj00kyNMdJLROCQ3j30AG-ygggg8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hNTQ0/ZDViYTc0MDVkNWM0/NDllMDM4MTE1NDc3/NWJjOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}