The term "staff augmentation" is gradually gaining popularity on the IT job market and luring more multinational companies to recruit remotely.

Staff augmentation in general includes IT staff augmentation. A sort of outsourcing service known as staff augmentation is utilized on a contractual basis to supplement the expertise and abilities of the current in-house team,because the vendor directly employs these resources, the expense and liability associated with hiring additional full-time employees are removed. To that end, remote developers employed by a staffing agency are committed to a single project at a time.