Staff augmentation bridges the gap between the talent pool with extensive skills and the availability of short-term open positions in an organization. Staff augmentation helps businesses enjoy numerous benefits such as faster time-to-market, reduced training costs, flexibility of managing projects, and saving on overhead costs. IT staff augmentation is considered to be a cost-effective method to gain huge business benefits.
Here are some common scenarios where staff augmentation can play a major role:
Case 1: Your in-house team is working on different projects for your clients, and a new project comes in. Your workforce doesn’t have the bandwidth to work on the new project.
Case 2: A new project won by your company needs specialized skills and your current employees don’t possess those skills and expertise. As you do not have enough time to train your employees for the new technology, you choose to hire dedicated resources.
Case 3: One of your employees takes a long absence due to some reasons such as illness or maternity leave, etc., and you do not want this to affect the project deadlines.
Case 4: You have grabbed the opportunity to obtain new projects, and you want to add resources to your team. You can find the right people for the job with staff augmentation and meet the rising needs of your enterprise.
Staff augmentation is all about hiring specialists on part-time or on a full-time basis for shorter long-term projects to ensure the best results and timely delivery. You can get new talents onboard much faster than hiring new employees to train the existing ones.
Team augmentation services involve allocating resources offshore, as an extension of a development team. The client company (the agency that hires such persons) gets complete control to manage the employees and their tasks on a regular basis.