Philippine remote teams · UK · Australia · Canada

One local hire costs you a full salary. We'll give you a team for less.

Vetted Filipino professionals — executive assistants, customer support specialists, paralegals, bookkeepers — placed by a firm founded by employment lawyers and HR innovators. Properly contracted, fully compliant, genuinely yours.

Free 15-minute call · A costed recommendation · No commitment

A multilingual customer support team at work
What Tako is built on

Three disciplines most outsourcing firms don't have

Tako wasn't started by recruiters. The people who founded it also run a Philippine law firm and an HR consultancy — so the parts everyone else leaves to chance are simply in-house here.

Tancinco and Mangco Law Office

Lawyers, not recruiters

Tako's founders include partners of Tancinco and Mangco Law. Your employment contracts, confidentiality terms and the structure of the engagement itself are drafted by people who would defend them in a dispute. Most outsourcing firms buy that advice in once something has already gone wrong. Here it was in the room from the start.

HR Spectacles

HR practitioners, not middlemen

Tako shares a founder with HR Spectacles — the first full-service HR consultancy in the Philippines and a DOLE Productivity Olympics national winner. That is where the people side comes from: recruitment, onboarding, payroll and employee welfare run on an established consultancy's methods, not improvisation. It is why Tako teams stay, and why performance holds past month three.

CompliantDepartment of Labor
and Employment

Employees, not arrangements

Every placement is a properly employed Philippine worker — real contracts, statutory benefits, full Department of Labor and Employment compliance. Not an anonymous contractor with no paper trail and no recourse.

The real cost

The most expensive person doing your admin is you

Under ten staff, the invoicing, the inbox, the scheduling and the chasing all land on the owner. It is the only labour in the business nobody costs — and it is the most expensive hour on the payroll.

11 hrs
A week the average small business owner loses to admin and finance
More time on admin than on actually growing the business
50–60%
Typical saving on back-office labour versus a local hire

So what is your own time actually costing you?

572
hours a year, gone
£34,320
of your own time, uncosted
14
working weeks you don't get back

That figure is before you pay anyone a salary. It is what the work already costs you — in the one resource you cannot buy more of.

Get that time back
How it works

Three steps, and none of them are yours to manage

1

Tell us what's eating your week

A 15-minute call. We map the tasks you'd hand over and tell you what the right team looks like — roles, structure and cost.

2

We shortlist. You interview.

Screened, skills-tested and interviewed before you ever see a CV. You meet the finalists. Nobody joins your team without your yes.

3

They start — we handle the rest

Contracts, payroll, statutory benefits and compliance sit with us. You get the output and an account manager, not an admin burden.

Where we operate

Your clock, not ours

Manila is where the work happens. Our clients are not — and that is the entire point. Teams are built around your working day, in your language, inside your tools, wherever your business is. These are the markets we are running in today.

United Kingdom United States Japan Taiwan Australia MANILA
Our talent ecosystem

What would you hand over first?

One specialist or a whole department — matched to your workflow, not just your job description.

New

AI-Enabled Teams

Your team arrives already fluent in the tools that make them faster — and trained on where not to use them.

  • AI-assisted research, drafting and summarisation
  • Prompt-literate assistants, analysts and writers
  • Workflow automation and data clean-up
  • Chat and ticket triage, with a human check before anything goes out
New

HR & People Operations

The discipline Tako was built on — run by the people who do it for Philippine employers every day.

  • Recruitment, sourcing and candidate screening
  • Onboarding, employee records and HRIS administration
  • Payroll processing and statutory benefits
  • HR compliance, documentation and policy drafting
Most requested

Administrative & Executive

  • Executive & Virtual Assistants
  • Data entry & research
  • Scheduling & travel
  • Customer support
Our strongest fit

Customer Service & Back-Office

  • Customer service & live chat
  • Technical & helpdesk support
  • Order processing & data entry
  • Extended-hours coverage
Legal

Legal Process Outsourcing

  • Paralegals & legal assistants
  • Contract review & research
  • Client intake & case management
  • Compliance analysts
Finance

Finance & Accounting

  • Bookkeepers & accountants
  • Payroll & AP/AR
  • Financial analysts
  • Audit associates
Creative

Marketing & Design

  • Graphic, UI/UX & motion
  • Social & content managers
  • SEO & email specialists
  • Video editors & copywriters
Technology

Technology & IT

  • Web, mobile & full-stack
  • QA & systems analysts
  • Cloud & cybersecurity
  • Data & AI specialists
Straight answers

Outsourcing fails in predictable ways.
We were built to prevent them.

"Will the quality actually be there?"

Every candidate is screened, skills-tested and interviewed before you see a shortlist — and you interview them too. Nobody joins your team without your yes. If the fit is wrong, we replace them.

"What about communication and timezone?"

The Philippines is the world's third-largest English-speaking country, with a business culture closely aligned to the UK and Australia. Your team works your hours — you're not waiting overnight for a reply.

"Is this actually legal and above board?"

This is the part most outsourcing firms quietly skip, and the part our founders built the company around. Your team is properly employed under Philippine law — real contracts, statutory benefits, full DOLE compliance. Not anonymous contractors on a marketplace with no paper trail and no recourse.

"Can I trust them with sensitive data?"

Confidentiality and data protection are contractual, not aspirational — backed by the same legal and HR bench that structures the employment itself. It's why clients in healthcare, finance and legal work with us.

Founded by a litigator, a corporate and tax lawyer, and an HR innovator

Tako exists because the hard part of outsourcing was never finding talent. It was employing people properly — and most firms never solved it.

Free 15-minute call

Tell us what you need covered

Fifteen minutes, no pressure, no obligation. You'll leave with a concrete recommendation — roles, cost and timeline — whether or not you work with us.

  • A costed team recommendation — specific roles, real numbers.
  • Shortlisted candidates in days — vetted people, not a database dump.
  • Compliance handled — contracts, payroll and statutory obligations are ours.

Prefer email? engage@takooutsourcing.com
12/F Belvedere Tower, San Miguel Ave, Ortigas Centre, Pasig City 1605, Philippines

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