IT staff augmentation is a widely used team extension approach where companies collaborate with external experts provided by staffing agencies instead of hiring in-house full-time employees. With IT staff augmentation services, clients get full management control over outstaffed professionals who remain officially employed by a staffing provider.
One of the biggest staff augmentation benefits for businesses is significant time and cost savings. For example, typically, businesses spend 6-9 months’ worth of the salary received by employees for their replacements. It means whenever a senior developer resigns, the expenses incurred amount to $60,000 – $75,000. Add it to the cost of downtimes caused by the absence of the required expert on a project and employment costs (e.g., trade unions), and you’ll get a hefty sum of money to cover.
Meanwhile, when you opt for team augmentation services, a staffing provider handles recruitment processes, offers legal support for experts’ employment, and provides necessary facilities and devices. It means you save a lot of costs.
