Flexible Staffing

An effective people strategy will include a significant proportion of “core staff” or permanent, long-term employees. But managers should not overlook the benefit of optimizing the balance between core and augmented staff, sometimes called “contract staff” or “contractors”.
Too many core staff and you wind up with salaries and benefits that you don’t need during slow periods. You sacrifice profit or deal with the demoralizing task of laying off excess staff.
Too much reliance on engineering/technical staff augmentation, and people who are central to your core competency may leave during slow periods.

Sometimes you need a person with specialized expertise for a project that you have the capabilities to manage in-house, but you don’t have anyone with that specific expertise. For example, an Enterprise Resource Planning software implementation, or someone to develop a particular software that needs a niche skill.

Duke Int. will find reliable resources with expertise specific to your needs.

• Duke Int. employs 500+ consultants that are hard to find or niche skills
• Duke Int. acts as the employer of record
• The contractor works under your direction
• Most contract employees are willing to work long hours to get your project done
• You achieve 100% utilization rate of contract staff
• Low employee markup relative to other types of service providers
• You achieve fast turnaround
• This solution is highly scalable
• You incorporate different expertise and perspective when compared to your permanent staff

• You have a project-based or seasonal increase in demand
• Your project is urgent
• You lack certain expertise in your organization, which you only need on a temporary basis