In recent years, outstaffing has been a rather relevant topic, but yet for some people the meaning of this term remains unclear. In IT field, this business practice is commonly employed by both startup companies and technology corporations all around the world. However, even the plugged-in ones have a hard time understanding what outstaffing is really about.
What is outstaffing?
IT outstaffing is a remote employment that businesses opt for to solve specific tasks without having to hire full-time employees. In other words, companies contract professionals who keep working at their regular workplaces. It is a sort of expertise rental solution for project management. This approach ensures close cooperation with an opportunity to monitor the execution and completion of the project.
Outstaffing service providers do not interfere with the professional activities of the hired specialists, while client companies act as project managers deciding on the number of the professionals involved in the case.
An example of outstaffing in action:
Sber is a Russian digital ecosystem that combines food delivery, taxi, and carsharing services, e-commerce services, logistics, audio streaming services and other features. Sberbank requested the TEAM FORCE team to provide a group of developers. The service provider dealt with the red tape concerning administrative and employment issues and handled the hiring and adaptation processes. Today, these specialists are employed by TEAM FORCE and work exclusively on the Sber project.
Can IT outstaffing replace in-house employees?
Conventionally, companies strive to create a workplace where employees feel included and consider themselves part of the team. With outstaffing, however, it is nearly impossible to achieve this effect. Specialists already have workplaces that they are connected to while project activities are regarded as temporary.
Nevertheless, there are a number of advantages to outstaffing that have a direct impact on project execution. For example, a flexible team and the ability to vary its size, simple and clear priority management, high level of efficiency and productivity, effective market entry, cost reduction and saving in resources.
So, can IT outstaffing replace in-house employees? The answer is a definite YES!
In the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, global digitalisation is gaining momentum, including the outstaffing. Every once in a while, highly skilled specialists face downtime after completing technical tasks. This time can be efficiently deployed on the market with companies impacted by the insufficient human resources. A data platform with favourable terms for business partners befit for this purpose.
A data sharing platform for valuable information
Valuable information, within this framework, includes project descriptions, jobs, professional competencies, specialists’ personal data and their current workload, project participation records, certificate verifications, company details, terms and conditions of outstaffing management and other information related to business operations.
Companies that treat business information as a valuable asset, therefore they are not willing to share it if it is not paying off. This factor prevents the establishment of an information partnership with a common database.
Due to a more optimal allocation of a range of resources with varying levels of competencies, expertise and experience, resource sharing could potentially contribute to a significant increase in the number of successfully delivered projects in a context of high demand and tight labour supply.
The partnership initiative based on the data sharing platform was discussed at our First Partnership Gathering held in September 2021. Among participants were companies from various fields, including: 7 red lines, Benovate, Digaital Zone, GMCS, Go digital, Hawk House Integration, IT consalting, IT-R, JetLyn, Kode, MGR Consulting, NEO STACK TECHNOLOGY, Octopod, Restart, SAP FREE, ICM, Andersen, Big Lab, Codeistic, Легкий Код (Simple Code), RGM-NEFT-GAS-SERVICE, Smartec, TIMLIS, Innopolis University and Energion.
Ruslan Gainanov, the founder of TEAM FORCE, has outlined a proposal to develop a record-keeping system for valuable data sharing operations based on a distributed ledger technology that would not have a transaction log. Its internal currency is designed specifically for the purpose of awarding business partners for providing IT services within the platform. The value of transactions and provided information is determined by platform members based on business factors and internal agreements and defined using tokenized assets.
The vision of the platform-based trust ecosystem of tokenized data monetisation TF Alliance is to turn the industry rivalry into a mutually beneficial partnership. The platform operates through a combination of public registries of tokenized resources with information assets managed solely by the owners.
