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Sheriff Sharma isn’t trying to convince North Dakota to go virtual. He’s pointing out that it already has—and that small businesses here deserve a way to benefit from it.
Sharma, founder of Inclusive Staffing in Bismarck, built his company around the idea that if local owners are drowning in admin work, they should be able to hand it off to skilled remote professionals without taking on full-time payroll costs. Inclusive Staffing connects businesses with vetted, English-fluent talent based in India who work U.S. hours overnight, handling everything from bookkeeping and payroll to customer service, marketing, and even software engineering. Sharma moved to the United States in 2009, starting out in California as a nurse. In 2014, he landed in North Dakota to pursue his RN degree and didn’t plan on staying long. Then the state surprised him. He says the community here reminded him of home because people are close to family, rooted in place, and quick to help. He worked as a travel nurse, moved into leadership roles in healthcare, and eventually spent six
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years in medical staffing as director of business development. That job gave him a clear view of a problem he kept seeing across industries, not just healthcare: owners were stuck doing the busywork themselves because hiring locally for support roles was getting too expensive, too slow, or both. In 2022, he launched Inclusive Staffing. The business became fully operational in 2024, and in February of this year he stepped away from his staffing career to focus on Inclusive full time.
WHAT INCLUSIVE STAFFING DOES Inclusive Staffing supplies remote professionals to businesses of all sizes, but Sharma is especially focused on small and mid-sized companies—often the ones in smaller towns—who can’t justify another full-time hire yet. Sharma recruits and manages a team
in India, where he opened a branch and built an onboarding and HR operation. The people Inclusive places are typically in the top tier of applicants— bachelor’s to master’s level, strong communicators, backgroundchecked, and screened for role fit and personality. They work U.S. schedule hours, so for a North Dakota owner, it feels like hiring a remote employee down the road, not across the globe. “Work on your best. Delegate the rest,” Sharma likes to say. Inclusive can fill a long list of roles, including: • admin assistants • bookkeepers and payroll specialists • data entry and customer service reps • medical billing and insurance pre-auth staff