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.

Over the years, BXGI has worked with a variety of clients, and discovered that when a business adopts a comprehensive outsourcing approach from the onset, vendors can better manage and maintain exceptionally high service quality, while keeping clients’ expenditures as low as possible. Let's walk through 6 crucial steps for building an effective outsourcing strategy.

When a software firm, a gaming company, or a corporate IT department need to cut personnel costs, accelerate project timeline, or push beyond the scope of what their in-house resources offer, they often turn to technical staffing services for help. IT service providers may suggest a variety of outsourcing engagement models, such as staff augmentation or project outsourcing, or even managed services, as ways to bring in outside talent.

The competitive environment technology companies operate in on a daily basis can make it a challenge to acquire the additional technical staff that is often needed to deliver a complex project or ship a software product on time. And when it comes to hiring, a wide range of issues can quickly surface as organizations try to attract increasingly scarce technical talent on a temporary or permanent basis, which is why the tech industry needs all of the staffing help it can get.