Organisations today are getting creative in order to maintain current productivity and pursue new growth opportunities while adequately staffing workgroups, staying within budget, and minimizing risk exposure if the economy experiences a dip or a slowdown. Staff augmentation is the solution many companies are using because it is most effective in helping them when it comes to the needs of their business.

What is Staff Augmentation?

Staff Augmentation, or better known as subcontracting, is primarily outsourcing of manpower on a skill requirement basis or project completion basis for a limited period of time. Staffing may be desired when there is a dynamic requirement of people, or there is a requirement of skilled staff, or the requirement is for a limited period.

Why Staff Augmentation?

Temporary staffing is an area where employers can make efficient large scale strategic savings on staffing requirements, keep a flexible effective workforce to hand and maintain staff through difficult times. The temporary staffing agencies will place temporary staff according to contracts available. This means employers will not have to outlay costs such as holiday pay, sickness benefits or other fringe benefits of permanent employment - except where official government regulations stipulate, temporary staff receives the same benefits.

These savings on temporary staffing - including Statutory Benefit schemes and insurances and perks, can be large when a percentage of the labour force is temporary. Buying in the right skills for the right projects seems like a good idea here.