We take an in-depth look at staffing industry news, trends and insights
Staff augmentation and managed IT services are two popular delivery approaches often employed by firms to meet the challenges of staffing up for a software development project, or when outsourcing essential but non-critical IT tasks to supplemental staff rather than hiring additional in-house employees.
As the average rates for offshore engineers have increased substantially in traditional offshore hubs like India and China, domestic outsourcing, also known as onshore IT outsourcing, has been rapidly increasing in popularity. Domestic outsourcing also offers many advantages offshoring doesn’t, which is another reason why onshore staff augmentation is becoming more viable — and for certain kinds of projects — the most effective outsourcing model for US-based companies to adopt.
When a company’s engineering or IT department needs to add talent, technology and HR executives have to weigh all of the options available to them, which can range from bringing on a local full-time employee to working with a temporary in-house or remotely based contractor recruited through a staffing agency. Let’s take a look at the expenses associated with direct hiring, as well as the expenses related to outsourcing, then discover the actual costs of engaging full-time staff versus working with onsite or remote contractors acquired via a staffing agency.
Whenever a company makes a business decision to bring onboard some augmented staff or build a robust distributed engineering team, the very first objective should be finding a vendor that takes the time to understand their client’s specific staffing needs. A company’s outsourcing strategy is often as unique as the company itself, which means the IT staffing agency your firm eventually hires should be as flexible and resourceful as the business you operate.
The appeal, and necessity, for businesses to build and work with distributed teams is on the rise, and all indications are that this remote working trend will continue to grow. Here are 4 essential steps to recruiting augmented staff, building distributed teams, and successfully managing those teams over time.
