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While outsourcing is basically about cost-effectiveness coupled with high skills and technical expertise, there are some vendors who have taken outsourcing to a whole new level. These vendors are only too aware of the umbilical relationship that exists between a service provider and the client – each is mutually dependent on the other for survival and nourishment. As a result, nurturing this relationship and enhancing it is foremost for them and they do so in various ways. One of the leading outsourcing service providers in India, Virtual Employee, has introduced the novel concept of providing its global business partners with what is known as the 'virtual employee'. The virtual employee, as the name suggests, is a remote worker who works exactly like a normal, local employee except for the fact that they work from the office of the vendor thousands of miles away. However, in this technology-aided era where the barrier of geographical distance is easily overcome by a host of tools, this hardly acts as a deterrent. That's not all. This vendor has a unique business model that makes it worth every penny that a client invests in outsourcing. In addition to the dedicated employee model it also offers the team model. Under the team model, a client still pays for just one virtual employee, but enjoys the services of an entire team, including the project manager, a team leader and a senior software engineer. For any company, but particularly for those in the field of IT and software development, such an arrangement works marvelously. Working with just one employee can prove to be a bit risky in case the employee falls sick or goes on leave, or worse case scenario, abruptly leaves. A team model has been specially designed to cushion exactly such blows and spare the client needless headaches and stress. This model offers a client the flexibility of not only choosing the number of hours they want from their virtual team but also how they want those hours to be utilized. So, the client could opt for one aspect of web development one week and another the next week, with employees of different skill sets working on their requirements. The Team Model allows a client to use any mix of employees they want. So, they could employ, for instance, 6 PHP developers or programmers, 1 ASP.net and 1 web developer for their project, and so on. The team model works out to the financial benefit of the client in more ways than one. Instead of one employee possessing a limited set of skills, they are now getting an entire team of software developers and designers all with different niche skill sets – all waiting to be utilized any time you want and the way you want. They also get a project manager who is a highly experienced and senior resource and one who would be communicating with and overseeing your outsourced project. A client also gets to save valuable work hours by not having to invest time in training an employee since it is the job of the project manager to pass on your instructions to the virtual team members. However, the biggest advantage of this team model is that you are effectively getting your very own offshore extension office here in India, complete with a end-to-end virtual team, a competent HR and IT support staff. And you are still in control of your outsourced software development work.
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