Running a casino takes expertise across marketing, customer service, operations and technology at once, and no permanent team is equally strong in all four. Staff augmentation adds the skills a specific project needs without adding them to the payroll permanently. This article sets out the four arguments for it.
Cost savings
Hiring is expensive before anyone starts work: salaries, benefits and training are an investment made in advance of any result. With staff augmentation a casino pays for the services it needs, when it needs them, and spends the difference somewhere else.
The avoided costs are specific: recruitment fees, training costs and benefits on the way in, and salaries and benefits for as long as the person stays afterwards.
Flexibility and scalability
The size of an augmented team follows the size of the work, which a permanent team cannot do. A casino can add people for a new project or initiative and scale back when it finishes — the kind of flexibility a business in the casino industry needs, because the industry does not hold still.
A marketing campaign is the clearest example: bring in marketing professionals to run it, and reduce the team once it has run.
Access to expertise and experience
The point of augmentation is reaching people who have already solved the problem in front of you. Global Wizards works across software development, mobile app development, SEO, digital marketing, video game development, web development and staff augmentation, so a casino can find the right professionals for a specific need without running a hiring process for each one.
Increased productivity
Experienced people finish things, which is the productivity argument in one sentence. Working with developers who have shipped the same kind of software before means an application is built quickly and efficiently without giving up quality, and the schedule holds.
Frostglass WizardThe project needs a skill we do not have.
GearspiderAdd it for the work.
Frostglass WizardConnect it to the existing team.
GearspiderThen release it when the project ends.
What this adds up to
A strong, experienced team is what a business needs to hit its objectives, and staff augmentation is a way to have one without carrying it permanently. If you choose us, you will not be waving your wand any more — you will be casting spells.
Talk to us about the project you are trying to staff, and we will tell you what it would take.
Frequently asked questions
What is staff augmentation for a casino?
Staff augmentation brings in outside professionals for specific projects instead of hiring permanent employees, so a casino pays for the services it needs when it needs them. Running a casino takes expertise across marketing, customer service, operations and technology, and augmentation is a way to add that expertise for a project rather than for good.
How does staff augmentation save a casino money?
It avoids the costs of hiring — recruitment fees, training and benefits — and the costs of retaining employees afterwards, such as salaries and ongoing benefits. What is left is payment for the services actually used.
Can an augmented team be scaled up and down?
Yes. The number of professionals can be adjusted as the casino’s needs change: a team can be brought in for a marketing campaign and reduced when the campaign is over, without the cost of retaining people between projects.
What services does Global Wizards offer for augmentation?
Software development, mobile app development, SEO, digital marketing, video game development, web development and staff augmentation itself.
When should a casino consider staff augmentation?
When it is adding a new project or initiative that needs skills the existing team does not have, and where hiring for it permanently would be slower and more expensive than bringing the skills in for the duration.
How does staff augmentation increase productivity?
Working with people who have already done the work means projects are completed on time and to standard, which is what gets more done in less time rather than adding headcount to the same problem.
