Remote Staffing Handbook: 8 Reasons Why Remote Staffing is Better than Outsourcing

Remote staffing and outsourcing are both popular options for businesses today. While remote staffing means you have a team of remote employees working exclusively for you, outsourcing means contracting third parties to complete certain projects or operations for you.

Outsourcing has been a popular means of getting a job done for quite some time. Countries like Armenia or Belarus are new hubs for IT outsourcing in particular. But with the surge in remote work since the start of the CoVid19 pandemic, remote staffing has quickly become a contender to outsourcing.

In a remote staffing model, remote workers who are employed by another company are recruited temporarily to perform certain tasks. The external agency takes care of the recruitment efforts and acts as the employer of the remote team and is responsible for their salaries, bonuses, and equipment, etc. The client provides and manages the assignment directly. 

This is a great model to choose when the client company has begun a project and requires specific assistance from professionals with certain skills that are not available in-house. This gives you a great advantage because you can hire top-level talent for a fraction of the cost of the full-time hire.  Additionally, the client company’s managers oversee project management and completion.

This CPE E-Book will help you to understand why remote staffing is better than outsourcing.