FAQs

Your Outsourcing Questions, Our Answers

Unlock the full potential of outsourcing with our comprehensive FAQ guide, your key to informed decision-making and seamless service integration.

General Information

What makes iScale's staff augmentation solutions unique?

iScale offers a highly personalized approach to staff augmentation, focusing on understanding your specific project needs and company culture to ensure a perfect fit. Our extensive pool of talent across various domains enables us to quickly match the right professionals to your projects.

  • Staff augmentation: Employee charged salary + mark-up. Mark-up depends on the services (Wage hosting, recruitment, IT, facilities) and the volume. For more information contact us at [email protected]
  • Business Process Outsourcing: hourly rate all inclusive. The rate depends on the skills and qualifications required. For more information contact us at [email protected]
  • Software development outsourcing: cost depend on the model chosen (time and material, or task based. For more information contact us at [email protected]

iScale takes care of all administrative and HR responsibilities, including contracts, payroll, taxes, and any legal compliance issues. This allows you to focus on your core business activities without worrying about the overheads associated with employment.

iScale serves a wide range of industries including technology, finance, healthcare, retail, and more. Our diverse talent pool allows us to cater to the specific needs of various sectors, ensuring industry-relevant expertise.

Outsourcing is a broad term for a situation where a company hires another company to perform services that were previously done in-house with the company’s own employees. While outsourcing may involve two companies within the same countries, most of outsourcing practices involve a customer in a particular country and an outsourcing company in another.

An Employer of Record (EOR) provider is a company allowing its clients to hire employees in a different country without establishing a local legal entity. Employees working through the EOR are legally employed and managed administratively by the EOR company, while they are operationally managed by the EOR client. The EOR company handles all legal compliance, HR, payroll, and benefits associated with the employment.

Staff augmentation, BPO and outsourcing are different strategies for a company to involve external resources with his processes and task. Each strategy features a different level of control, integration, and impact on a operations.

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Pricing + Payments

What is the cost of your outsourcing service?
  • Staff augmentation : Employee charged salary + mark-up. Mark-up depends on the services (Wage hosting, recruitment, IT, facilities) and the volume.
  • BPO : hourly rate all inclusive. The rate depends on the skills and qualifications required.
  • Software development outsourcing : cost depend on the model chosen (time and material, or task based.
Our staff augmentation services prioritize transparency, ensuring that each team member seamlessly integrates into your organization. We foster open conversations to maintain clarity and alignment with your goals.
Yes, it is possible. We offer billing in USD, EUR, SGD and AUD. Other currencies may be available upon request.
Most invoicing is done on a monthly basis. Payment terms may vary by services. In some cases, a refundable security deposit may be required.
Typically yes for EOR and staff augmentation. With BPO, the pricing is all inclusive and includes such costs.

HR + Recruitment

What if I am not satisfied with your employee’s work ?
Our HR and operations management employees can help in such situation. Each situation is unique and may be addressed differently. It is important for our clients to give feedback and communicate with our management on such issues.
We try to replace employees as much as possible in other accounts.
While we prefer employees to follow their local daytime hours to perform work, we understand that some client prefer our employees to work in their timezone. It is possible to our employes in Madagascar and the Philippines to follow our clients timezones.
Yes, it is possible to have specific employees be on-call for operational emergencies. This arrangement requires additional compensation and price may vary according to the number of hours rendered during on-call times.
  • For most roles, we aim to find most positions in 4 to 6 weeks. But it depends on the difficulty of the profile and the responsiveness of the client.
  • But we don’t rush during the recruitment process. We want to find the right fit and not just a fit
We perform various screening assessments depending on the position to be filled by the candidate. Most screening assessment include technical, personality and cultural fit evaluation. All successful applicants are subject to a background check.
  • It doesn’t happen aa lot with u. When candidates have signed the contract, they usually stick to it.
  • What can happen is to move the start date, but for good reason usually.
  • We can buy on your behalf
  • We can rent it to you
  • You can ship (but it’s not recommended because very costly)