Are you struggling and pulling your hair out trying to fill technology jobs in your organization? Businesses large or small everywhere, struggle to hire competent resources at a reasonable price. With the low availability of resources onshore, globalization, and increased acceptance of remote work since the COVID pandemic era, it now makes more sense to consider off-shore resources for your business where it makes sense.
What is Staff Augmentation?
Many times, in business, you come across a situation where you need more people on your team. It usually happens when you initiate a new project or scale your business. The internal staff is too busy or overwhelmed. Here Staff Augmentation services can help. This professional service provides your company with the competent resources to reduce your cost and burden. You decide on the venture’s scope, budget, and output; and staff augmentation service provides the resources necessary to perform the tasks related to a project or IT service.
What is Outsourcing?
In Outsourcing managed service providers assume full responsibility for functions assigned by customers, including managing human resources. However, if it is a project, the supplier also assigns a dedicated project manager to the project. The project team is responsible to the business to deliver the project results as per the requirements and defined scope.
Let’s see the differences between the two models below.
Staff Augmentation
What you are responsible for:
- Managing projects, tasks, and resources
- Producing results
- Models, processes, and tools are managed by you
What provider is responsible for:
- Managing payroll & benefits
- Providing the necessary hardware, software, and infrastructure
- Monitoring resource performance
Outsourcing
Provider is responsible for everything:
- Managing projects, tasks, and resources
- Producing results
- Models, processes, and tools are managed by supplier
- Managing payroll & benefits
- Providing the necessary hardware, software, and infrastructure
- Monitoring resource performance
What are the benefits of Staff Augmentation versus internal hiring?
- Cost Effective: Hiring new employees for a job is an exhaustive process. A study showed that hiring a new employee costs more than US $4,000. Not to mention time, which can drag to months. You can cut time and cost by working with a staff augmentation service.
- Scalability: Outsourcing the project will diminish costs instead of training new employees. You can use this money on tasks that help you grow.
- On-demand Skilled Resources: Hiring a full-time employee and paying them a high salary and benefits will not make sense for a specific project of a limited duration. For such a project, you can get a competent remote resource that is better equipped. No need to hire and then terminate full-time staff.
- Added Knowledge and Expertise: The staff augmentation services have highly skilled and creative people on board who have served in similar roles with multiple customers. Working with staff augmentation services helps you tap that knowledge and creativity of such resources with diverse experience. It is also true if you are working on application development.
- Economical Option: Since the start of the digital era, innovative companies have realized that cutting production costs is the best way to increase profits and gain a competitive advantage. They realized this when they found they could get the same or better quality services off-shore while lowering their costs. That is why Apple has production facilities in India, China, Malaysia, Thailand, and The Czech Republic. You can get the same competitive advantage with IT staff augmentation services.
Still not sure?
If you’re still skeptical about whether to use staff augmentation, consider this. Do you like test-driving a car before buying one? Well, apply the same principle to staff augmentation. You can do so by hiring a resource for a short duration to check them out. And then switch to an annual contract with the provider once you have judged the resource as the right fit for the longer term.
How can we help:
CRES Staff Augmentation is a service to supplement resources to your team on an as-needed basis. It allows our customers to quickly find the right fit for hard-to-fill or temporary positions, which boosts the scalability and productivity of their team.
When starting a new project, it is common to run into a skills gap or the need to scale up rapidly. It’s no secret that there is a shortage of talent out there right now and this shortage is more prevalent in technology resources.
We offer cost-effective staff augmentation solutions by providing specialized remote resources. Our resources can be diversified or specialized in the skills and industrial sectors. We also provide coverage for your assigned resources in case they become unavailable for any reason. CRES Staff Augmentation Services is a proven, reliable, and cost-effective way for our Clients to increase the productivity of their internal IT teams with minimal time.
Get in touch with us to discuss your Staff Augmentation needs.
About Irfan Butt
CRES Technology – Founder and CEO
A strategic leader with more than twenty years of progressive experience in Business Administration, Finance, Product Development, and Project Management. Irfan has a proven track record in a broad range of industries including hospitality, real estate, banking, finance, and management consulting.