Offshore staff augmentation, fully managed
You get a dedicated professional who works as part of your team. We source them, vet them, employ them, pay them and handle the compliance, so the only thing you manage is the work.
You get a dedicated professional who works as part of your team. We source them, vet them, employ them, pay them and handle the compliance, so the only thing you manage is the work.
Offshore staff augmentation sits between hiring someone yourself and handing a project to an agency. The professional is embedded in your team (your stand-ups, your tools, your priorities, your manager), but the employment relationship sits with us.
That distinction is the whole point. You keep full control of what gets worked on and how, without taking on an employment contract in a jurisdiction you may have no entity in, and without the recruitment fee, notice period and severance exposure that come with a permanent hire.
A note on the word. This service is also called talent augmentation, staff aug, team extension or an extended team. They describe the same arrangement: a person under your direction, on someone else’s payroll.
The comparison that matters is not our rate against a salary, it is our rate against the fully loaded cost of an employer. These sit with us:
We do not publish rates, because they depend on discipline, seniority and jurisdiction and a headline number would mislead more than it helped. A full all-inclusive rate card is available on request.
| Staff augmentation | Recruitment agency | Freelance marketplace | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who employs | Us | You | Nobody, self-employed |
| Who directs the work | You | You | You |
| Commercial shape | Monthly rate per resource | One-off placement fee | Hourly or per project |
| If it does not work out | Replaced in 7 days, no fee | Rebate window, then your problem | Start the search again |
| Payroll & compliance | Ours | Yours | Theirs, unverified |
| Scaling down | 30 days’ notice | Notice, redundancy, severance | Immediate |
| Continuity | Dedicated, full-time | Dedicated, full-time | Shared across clients |
An agency is the right answer when you want to own the employment relationship permanently. A marketplace is the right answer for short, self-contained pieces of work. Augmentation is the right answer when you want the continuity of a full-time team member without the entity, the fee or the exit risk. The fourth option, a whole dedicated squad rather than individual seats, is compared against this model in staff augmentation vs a dedicated development team.
Software engineering, design, marketing, AI and data, finance, customer support and e-commerce operations, from individual contributors through to senior specialists, full time or part time.
Staff augmentation is not only full-time seats. Where the requirement is senior judgement rather than forty hours a week, the same model places a senior person on a fractional basis: a CTO for architecture decisions, technical due diligence or building a first engineering function; a finance lead for month-end, reporting and controls. We employ and manage the person, you agree the days per month and direct the work, and the engagement runs on the same monthly terms, notice period and replacement guarantee as every other seat. The guide to when a fractional CTO fits sets out the decision in detail.
The three we are asked for most often have a page of their own, covering the seniorities we place, how the screening runs for that discipline and what the first month looks like: hire offshore developers, hire AI and data engineers, and outsourced accounting and bookkeeping. If you are weighing a seat against standing up your own offshore centre, the offshore development centre comparison sets out where each becomes the cheaper answer.
We take the brief: the role, the seniority, the stack, the working hours you need covered, and what good looks like after 90 days.
We search our screened candidate network of more than 21,000 available for sourcing first, then go to market for anything it does not cover.
Structured screening for technical skill, communication and reliability. You get a shortlist within 7 days of a signed brief and interview whoever you want to.
We handle the contract, payroll setup, equipment and access. A fully onboarded professional is typically working within 2 to 4 weeks of the brief.
You direct the work day to day. We stay responsible for the employment relationship, retention and documented SLAs.
The word offshore makes people picture a team asleep while you work. From London and Dubai that is not what happens. Karachi is four hours ahead of London in summer and five in winter, so a UK team shares its whole morning with the offshore team every day. From Dubai the offset is one hour, so the working day is almost entirely shared. Two to four hours of protected overlap is enough to run standups, code review, pairing and every decision that needs a conversation; the UK gets that comfortably and the UAE gets far more.
The other question that decides whether offshore staff augmentation works is who employs the person. Here it is us, through the registered entity below in the relevant jurisdiction, so you never carry a foreign payroll, an employment contract in a country you have no presence in, or the contractor status risk of engaging someone directly. You direct the work; we carry the employment. Our guides cover the rest of the operating question in depth:
We operate through three registered entities, which is what makes the employment side work rather than being a promise on a website:
Every engagement runs under NDA, with IP assignment to you written into the contract from the outset. If an engagement ends, access is revoked, equipment is recovered and offboarding follows a documented checklist.
Offshore staff augmentation is adding dedicated professionals based in another country to your own team, working under your direction in your tools and standups, while a partner such as Outstaff Solutions sources, screens, employs and pays them. It differs from outsourcing because you direct the work, and from an employer of record because the partner finds the person as well as employing them. For UK and UAE companies working with professionals in Pakistan the time zone offset is four to five hours and one hour respectively, so the working day is shared.
With staff augmentation you direct the work. The professional joins your stand-ups, uses your tools and reports to your manager, exactly like an in-house hire, we simply carry the employment. With outsourcing you hand over a defined scope and the supplier manages delivery against it. If you want control of day-to-day priorities, augmentation is the model; if you want an outcome delivered to a specification, that is our managed services line instead.
We do. Contracts, payroll, insurance, tax-compliant structuring and end-of-service benefits all sit with Outstaff Solutions, through our registered entities in the UK, UAE and Pakistan. You direct the work; we carry the employment.
You receive a shortlist of vetted candidates within 7 days of a signed brief, and a fully onboarded, working professional typically within 2 to 4 weeks.
If a placement underperforms we replace them within 7 days at no extra fee. Scaling down is a 30-day notice with no long lock-in, so a role that stops being needed stops being billed.
Pricing is a monthly rate per resource, and it is inclusive, employment, payroll, insurance and benefits are all covered in the rate rather than added afterwards. That matters when comparing against an in-house hire, where salary is only part of the employer cost. A full all-inclusive rate card is available on request.
Every engagement operates under NDA, with IP assignment to the client written into contracts. Access to your systems follows the permissions you set, and confidential information is handled under documented controls through our registered entities.
Send us a brief and you will have a shortlist inside a week. Start with a single seat, and scale only when it has proven itself.
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