By Jay Neale 
Resourcing has long been a challenge for many agencies.
Trying to balance cost-effectiveness, quality work, slow client sign-offs and last-minute projects with finding, hiring and managing the top-drawer talent in the highly competitive UK market…
Is it time to look further afield?
Not just ‘offshore resource’ that you pick up as and when projects require them but fully integrated and engaged people that make your agency.
Jay speaks to exited digital agency founders, David Wain-Heapy and Bachir Smahi. Having worked together for 16 years, David and Bachir’s struggle hiring quality talent took them overseas, hiring some of the world’s best remotely.
They discuss the benefits and challenges that running an offshore team brings, how to make it work and how you don’t have to sacrifice team engagement and culture.
Your 'too-long-didn't-watch' takeaway (TLDW):
"As our client facing people were leaving, we were replacing them with people from Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and even Ukraine. And they were phenomenal!"
About David and Bachir
Exited digital agency founders
Having worked together for 16 years, David and Bachir’s struggle hiring quality talent took them overseas, hiring some of the world’s best remotely. Now aiming to give you access to some of the best digital talent from around the world.
The two have many years experience building globally distributed teams of digital professionals and leading them to help great businesses win in the race for attention and accelerate their digital growth.
Whilst they currently focus on building remote teams for digital businesses with Prodigi, they're now working to provide a flexible and scalable solution that enables companies to take control of hiring by looking at a global talent pool.
