{"id":7595,"date":"2022-06-07T00:27:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T00:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmedia.la\/?p=7595"},"modified":"2022-06-07T00:27:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T00:27:19","slug":"what-is-staff-augmentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmedia.la\/en\/what-is-staff-augmentation\/","title":{"rendered":"What is staff augmentation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Staff augmentation is an outsourcing strategy that consists in the use of outside personnel on a temporary basis to augment the capacity of your organization. Thanks to staff augmentation, companies can reduce costs of recruitment, payroll and implementation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>What are the types of staff augmentation?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are three types:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">\n<h4><b>Commodity<\/b><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is when the company needs reliable workers, but such workers do not need to have a specific skill set. For example, manual labor, events, retail, etc.<\/span><b><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">\n<h4><b>Skill-based<\/b><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the position requires a certain skill, such as a language knowledge, spreadsheet use, etc. However, the relative level of the skill is not critical. For example, basi copywriting, data processing or transcription.<\/span><b><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">\n<h4><b>Highly-skilled<\/b><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this case, the company requires a set of skills that are available only through education and training. Here, the level of the skill is very important. A few examples in this category include: Brand design, Contract law, Software engineering.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7016 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmedia.la\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/dedicated-development-team-1024x514.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gmedia.la\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/dedicated-development-team-980x492.png 980w, https:\/\/www.gmedia.la\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/dedicated-development-team-480x241.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><b>What benefits does it have?<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is not bound by geographical limitations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You have access to a larger talent pool.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It allows firms to expand their operations on a trial basis, without investing in a full-fledged workforce.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Staff augmentation is a very flexible model, allowing firms to hire employees to suit the short-term needs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This type of services ensure a cost-effective means to leverage specific skill sets.Hiring professionals for a certain project, the firm does not have to bear the cost of recruiting for a long term.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>In which scenarios is the model used?<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>As a bridge to hire: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Staff augmentation can work as a bridge to provide capacity while you hire a permanent team. For example, a new location, new lines of business, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>For increased capacity: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is used as an increase in labor to fulfill temporary requirements or a spike in work.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>As part of the growth strategy: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, building a team with almost entirely flexible labor is a common strategy, used to gain competitive advantage. This helps increase speed to market, be more agile from a core skills point of view, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>For specialized skills:\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There comes a time when companies require out-of-house specialized skills for a certain time. In scenarios like this, augmentation staff is one of the best options.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you looking for staff augmentation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmedia.la\/staff-augmentation-services\/\">services<\/a> to help you finish projects successfully? We are here to help. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmedia.la\/contact\/\">Contact us<\/a> today.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff augmentation is an outsourcing strategy that consists in the use of outside personnel on a temporary basis to augment the capacity of your organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[251,252,249,250],"class_list":["post-7595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-benefits-of-staff-augmentation","tag-outsourcing-it","tag-staff-augmentation","tag-staff-augmentation-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmedia.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmedia.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmedia.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmedia.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmedia.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmedia.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmedia.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmedia.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmedia.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmedia.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}