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   What is the experience of Brickwork in outsourcing?
   What is the Brickwork Advantage?
   Where does your team operate from?
   What are the security & facilities that are in place?
   What are the typical qualifications of  your REAs?
   How do you ensure employee credibility?
   Does Brickwork attract and retain high quality people?
 
What is the experience of Brickwork in outsourcing?

Headquartered in Bangalore, Brickwork started its operations in early  2004. Over the past 4 years Brickwork provided services to companies across a range of industries, including retail, healthcare, real estate, airlines, communication, financial services, auto-component manufacturing, media, IT, gaming, online education, and enterprise solutions.Brickwork has provided services to more than 2000 clients that include Fortune-500 companies, large corporations, small and medium corporations, consultants, and individual professionals spread across all over the globe.

 

What is the Brickwork Advantage?

Background :

Brickwork is the first company in India to launch the concept of a ‘Remote Executive Assistant.’’ Our innovative business idea has been a highlight of popular books like the ‘World is Flat’ by Thomas Freidman, Editor of New York Times and ‘Four Hour Work Week’ by Timothy Ferris. We have the valuable experience of serving over 2000 clients the world over. We are the One-Stop Shop for all your business needs: We offer a wide range of skills available, to suit your needs. We can do basic administrative tasks as well as high-end research assignments. Our clientele range from individual entrepreneurs and professionals to fortune-500 companies.

Where does your team operate from?
Our delivery teams are located in Bangalore, India.  But we do have marketing offices in London and in the US.

What are the security measures and facilities that are in place?

Keeping in mind concerns regarding information security, we have engineered our infrastructure so as to eliminate all possible leak of information.
Enterprise Access System for Employee Login

   Secure Smart Card, Secure Premises Login
   Network and Windows Login, PC 'locking'
   Secure Remote Access (VPN)
   Single sign on to enterprise and desktop applications
   Employees made to sign confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreements

Secured VPN and Network

   Total secured CISCO VPN Tunnel to Client, which blocks Peep in from all Peers
   Secured Cisco® Intelligent switches and Cisco® Network Assistant optimized for LAN
   Cisco® PIX® Firewall to block all ports for HTTP, FTP, TCP/IP, UDP and even ICMP

 

Work Station Security

   HP computers with genuine Windows XP operating systems
   Wide security management with administrative auditing, reporting, and monitoring facilities which will secure data at every stage
   Workstations are secured individually by Anti-Virus Protection and Back-Up Drive Manager

Infrastructure

   Fully-equipped facility in Bangalore, 10,000 sq ft area
   Standardized & documented infrastructure management processes
   Assured 99.95% uptime         
   Consistent Power with two back-ups
   UPS – Two 40Kva provides back-up for 40 minutes.
   Generator – One 100Kva & one 250Kva connected separately
   

What are the typical qualifications of your REAs?

The Brickwork team is  the best in the business.  Our Lead REAs are graduates from the best management and engineering Institutes in India and abroad. We have chartered accountants (equivalent to Certified Professional Accountants in the US), statisticians, healthcare experts, specialists, software professionals, dot net and PHP coders, and lawyers in our team. Our REAs are also from some of the other best institutions who have specialized in Commerce, Engineering, Science, Social Science, etc.  Many are graduates (e.g. MBAs) and quite a few are PhDs. All our REAs are trained and experienced to manage all the basic tasks required of most assignments.

 

How do you ensure employee credibility?

Employees are recruited into the organization through tested methods of evaluation of capability and integrity. While entering into projects, all the employees who will be involved in the projects are made to sign confidentiality agreements with Brickwork India. The access to client information is restricted to a limited number of people and a high level security system is employed at their workstations.

 

Does Brickwork attract and retain high quality people?

Brickwork believes that commitment, sincerity, hard work, positive attitude and co-operative leadership form the core foundation for our employee success. Brickwork believes in equal opportunities for all and does not discriminate on the basis of caste, race or religion.Brickwork possesses the ability to attract and retain the best in talent because of the unique business model. Brickwork is the first company in India to launch ‘Remote Executive Assistant’ concept which resulted in lot of National and International media coverage on our innovative business approach. We have a highly selective hiring policy at all levels which ensure consistency in quality of our human resources. Brickwork has a flat organizational structure and the analysts get direct mentoring from the senior management. At Brickwork every employee gets the opportunity to interact directly with different international clients, which is the dream of every brilliant Business school aspirants of India.  Brickwork employees enjoy their work because of the greater professional freedom, which helps them to deliver better results and receive excellent customer satisfaction feedback. So the appreciation they get from their client helps us in our efforts to retain smart employees.