Add engineers without adding headcount.

IT staff augmentation is a staffing model in which a firm supplies technology professionals who join a client's team for a set period while staying on the firm's rolls. Novelworx provides IT staff augmentation across India. The client directs the work, and Novelworx handles employment, payroll, PF, ESIC, PT and TDS for each professional.

Temp-to-hire is a staffing model in which a professional starts on a staffing firm's rolls and can later move to the client's rolls. With Novelworx temp-to-hire, the person works in the client's team first, so both sides can judge the fit. Conversion terms are agreed before the engagement starts.

The client and Novelworx agree the conversion terms in the contract before the professional starts. When the client decides to convert, the professional resigns from Novelworx rolls, Novelworx completes the exit and settlement, and the client issues a new employment contract. The professional keeps working in the same team throughout.

The client does. Augmented professionals join the client's team, follow its ways of working and take direction from its managers, because the client owns the delivery. Novelworx is the employer on record and handles employment terms, salaries, statutory deductions and filings, leave and exits for each professional.

In staff augmentation, the client directs the people and owns the delivery, and Novelworx provides and employs the professionals. In project outsourcing, a vendor owns the delivery and manages its own team, and the client manages the vendor. Novelworx provides augmentation, not project delivery, and says so upfront.

The duration is set by the client's need and agreed in the contract with Novelworx. Some engagements cover a single release or a notice-period gap. Others run longer and are extended as the work continues. At the end of each term, the client can extend, release the professional or convert them through temp-to-hire.

Yes. Every augmented professional is on Novelworx rolls, so Novelworx deducts and deposits PF, ESIC where it applies, Professional Tax in states that levy it and TDS on salaries. Each deadline sits on a compliance calendar Novelworx manages. Clients whose compliance Novelworx manages have recorded zero statutory penalties.

Staff augmentation is better when the need is urgent, temporary or uncertain: a deadline, a project, cover for a gap or a skill you are testing. Permanent hiring is better for long-term core roles. Novelworx offers both, and temp-to-hire bridges them when you want to see the work before you commit.