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Outstaffing: vendor specialists on your team

Outstaffing is when a vendor's developers, designers, or QA engineers join your team and work on your tasks while remaining employed by the vendor. It's a fast way to add capacity without hiring. With outsourcing, by contrast, the vendor takes on the whole project and is responsible for the result.

Why it mattersYou can scale your team quickly without adding headcount.

Also called: Staff augmentation, Dedicated specialists

How it works

How it works

You describe which specialists you need and for how long. The vendor finds the people, they join your tasks, meetings, and tools, and you pay the vendor under the contract.

In CONTACT.WORK

How it works in CONTACT.WORK

CONTACT.WORK engineers who already know the platform can join your team in a range of roles.

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