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3 reasons for staff augmentation’s growing demand

The top 3 reasons for staff augmentation’s growing demand in 2023 prove that companies do reap benefits from hiring professionals through this novel method.
A key aspect for the future of any organization is the quality of its workers. This pointopen the door to a huge problem today that we could separate into three elements.
  • There is an ever-growing gap between companies' needs and workers' abilities.
  • As more and more organizations go digital and start offering software as a service (SaaS) or depending on complex platforms to get their products to their clients, the demand for IT and software development workers surpasses the supply.
  • If you want to create your own teams with highly qualified professionals, you might find some complications such as low employee retention and recruitment problems.

How can you sort these obstacles? With a new, innovative tool that is growing more and more popular all over the world: staff augmentation. Unlike traditional outsourcing, in which interaction between in-house and external teams is limited, staff augmentation allows for their integration. Extra staff works directly with long-term employees and collaboration is easy.
Staff augmentation simplifies access to the talents needed for each project. Thus, more companies are likely to turn to a specialized partner that can provide them with this service. These 3 trends in the tech industry prove it.
  1. Increasing ranks of fully remote workers

More and more people, particularly the young, are choosing to be digital nomads. What does this mean? That they don't need to be in a specific physical location to be able to work and, thus, they choose to work remotely. Then, they can travel and live new experiences in other countries at the same time.
To set a point of reference, Dr. Andrés Hatum, a professor at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT), states that digital nomads have grown from 9 million (2019) to 12 million (2022). All signs seem to point to this trend taking deeper roots in the next 5 years. Given this outlook, even the most reticent companies will have to at least consider changing their modusoperandi to hire remote staff.

  1. Increasing amount of Latin American tech talent

Although there are talented STEM professionals all over the world, some Latin American countries have taken the lead in terms of training and are home to lots of highly qualified workers, specially in IT and software development. In recent years, Buenos Aires as well as other cities in this region have become small technological centers, which makes them a very useful source for nearshore staff augmentation. Through this model, companies can hire professionals located in other countries but still within the same time zone. For instance, a company based in the United States could easily find nearshore staff located in Latin America.
  1. Higher demand of professionals in possession of both hard and soft skills

As more countries produce highly trained professionals in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, companies might find candidates more easily. However, employers must not forget how important soft skills are. For example:
  • Communication.
  • Collaboration.
  • Leadership.

These traits are key to achieve better synergy and innovation. To create balanced teams and preserve a good work environment, companies have to be selective when hiring professionals.
Using staff augmentation, organizations are able to find remote workers who have both hard and soft skills. That is to say, exactly what they need to be successful.
These three elements show that this trend for hiring professionals through staff augmentation will continue to grow. Then, for example, American companies will find a solution to their staffing issues through nearshore staff augmentation sourced from Latin American countries. They will connect with incredible talents for a much lower cost than it would take through traditional long-term contracts.
OpenDev is prepared to advise you on how to incorporate professionals specialized in software development to work in coordination with your in-house team. Contact us to learn more about staff augmentation and ensure the success of your projects.

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