Advantages implementing Staff Augmentation in your corporate projects

Patricia Simonovich (PSRH Consulting)  & 

Marcelo Teselman (Mobile Computing)

Big projects convert a company to Market Leader company. Often specific business  requirements involve recruiting and contracting a specific team only for those tasks.

For many corporations this situation is a problem, in this way choosing Staff Augmentation services enables them to obtain the required team in a scalable way, for projects aligned with general company objectives avoiding time and distraction used to contract directly a team.

Staff Augmentation contracting services provide a set of advantages that most of world companies see as best contracting option. Process speed up and effective implementation is a corporate paradigm very important to accomplish company objectives, valid for any company size and industry.

Experience Matters

One of the key recommendations to have success recruiting a team with staff augmentation process,  is that the team members should be SSR or SR, not Jr or students. They are perfect for projects where training and support should be minimum, enabling your company project assignment without risks.

A professional with his abilities enabled for specific tasks, will provide working results in expected times, saving times and money in trainings and avoiding basic errors.

Cost saving without quality impact

The cost-benefit contracting directly a project team, including taxes, salaries, benefits, legal requirements never will be positive for your company in terms of cost-benefit. All these mentioned items salaries, taxes, legal requirements, etc. will impact your budgets, they will be underestimated, at this point Staff augmentation come to action, it enables your company increase the working team with specific professionals assigned to specific tasks without long term contracts and hidden human resource costs.

 A fresh and modern perspective

Bring a professional to do part of your company work during some weeks or months, will provide your company with a new criteria to review or optimize many processes with a different and fresh perspective and a person involved directly on them adding value to your organization.

A team member working based on Staff Augmentation contracting method will be less likely to be involved in the internal human conflicts impacting working environment and productivity.

Time is gold

Staff Augmentation is based on premise that customer will pay to the resource provider vendor only for worked time. This situation will have a direct impact in your company salaries balances. Additionally this worker will be ever busy, nobody should be worried about this point, at the exact moment that there are no more tasks for him, based on signed contracts, these services could be stopped.

There are no working risk for your employees

Working closer with your Saff Augmentation vendor and adding new resources or teams in a professional way, following Staff Augmentation recommendations will integrate faster your actual employees with the new added teams in a productive way, avoiding any type of impact on process quality or company risks.

Conclusion

Don’t try to develop  a new wheel contracting human resources, take advantage of this excellent methodology called Staff Augmentation, implementing a win-win-win model  (Customer- Resource- Vendor) and helping your company to grow.