Sidney Hanstein is the Managing Partner and Founder of Outsourcing Solutions. After graduating from high school in 1989, he began working for M-NET (Multi-Choice) as a customer service representative. Because M-Net was a new and dynamic business, it gave all young people who started at the time fantastic opportunities to grow. Sidney quickly rose through the ranks to become the first Supervisor in the Stores and Distribution department, shipping decoders all over Namibia. He established the Human Resources department at MultiChoice and later became the company’s first HR manager. The company was streamlined in 2002.
He proposed outsourcing the HR department and all of its services, which at the time included payroll. Following the approval of his proposal, he established a new company called Practical Outsourcing Solutions. In 2002, Practical Outsourcing Solutions’ sole client was MultiChoice Namibia. M-Web Namibia soon followed as the second client. Since then, Practical Outsourcing Solutions has grown in terms of clients and services, and it is now firmly established in the private sector, with clients in the healthcare, mining, education, and information technology industries. Outsourcing Solutions also provides HR services to Telecommunication Service Providers, Wildlife and Nature Resorts, Energy Suppliers, and Non-profit organisations to Government Ministries like the Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Environment, as well as Parastatals like Air Namibia and NAC.
In 2019, he was nominated and elected to Team Namibia’s board of directors. As the current Chairperson of the Team Namibia Board, he have been invited to serve on the Technical Committee of Namibia’s National Quality Policy (NQP) as well as the National Standardisation Strategy Task Force (NSS-TF).
His membership in the Namibia Employers Association also provided him with the opportunity to be one of the Master Trainers for the International Labour Organization’s established Conventions C190 under the auspices of the Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations, and Employment Creation.
