Hiring Teams vs Individuals: Why ‘Team Hiring’ Is the Future of Remote Work?

Akanksha Singh
Turingcom
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4 min readOct 11, 2022
Team hiring is the future of remote work

Hiring is a stressful and time-consuming process that includes finding the right individual, providing proper training, and identifying the right role in the company based on interpersonal and technical skills.

When it comes to building a reliable workforce, most hiring managers focus on extraordinary individuals who can potentially take the organization to new heights. Call it charisma, the rush of finding a solitary rose among the bushes, or looking for a ‘superstar’ worker; traditional hiring practices have always focused on individuals rather than teams.

But, if individuals alone were able to make a successful workforce, the recruitment world wouldn’t be teeming with debates on teams vs individuals. Organizations need the same amount of attention and planning to recruit highly successful teams, if not more.

Read on to find out why ‘team hires’ are the new buzzword and what is it about hiring teams that makes it such a contemporary and revolutionary idea, especially for remote work.

Teams vs Individuals: Where should you put your money/effort?

There’s a reason why cliches like- “Teamwork makes the Dreamwork,” exist. Teams have a long record of outperforming individuals; hence many organizations, especially those looking for remote talent, are leaning toward making team hires.

  • Studies suggest that teams have higher productivity rates, greater probabilities of completing urgent tasks, and can outperform ‘superstar’ individuals. The ‘Scrum’ team performance framework by author Jeff Sutherland suggests that when implemented correctly, teams increase overall company productivity by 800 times.
  • Another stressful aspect of hiring is understanding individual dynamics. Sometimes it becomes a pain to understand where a new individual fits, and how they work with other people. With teams, this becomes a moot point since teams come as a unit and theoretically would’ve worked together previously.
  • A great team is not only more collaborative and productive but would push each other in the right direction to bring about great improvements for the company and the work culture.

Benefits of Hiring Teams

Traditional hiring practices are slowly becoming obsolete, with many companies, especially in tech, gravitating towards newer hiring practices like outsourcing and team hiring.

Hiring entire teams can condense the weeks-long process to a few days. Since teams come as a unit, they are analyzed as a unit without worrying about how they would affect the company dynamics.

Here are some of the benefits of hiring teams:

  1. They’re faster to hire. For companies who’re looking at fulfilling several positions, teams can prove to be a godsend. From the interview process to skill assessment, most things consume less time.
  2. Teams are easier to integrate since they come as a unit. Individuals may require weeks, even months of training to become accustomed to the way things work in a company. On the contrary, teams are generally faster owing to their experience and already-established hierarchy.
  3. Collaboration becomes easy since you do not have to worry about the team’s internal dynamics. Most team members have already worked together previously and would know how to collaborate well.
  4. Teams become productive more quickly. It is difficult to train an individual and get them up to speed on the company culture. However, teams are fast in learning the ins and outs of working since they already have built-in support systems and can quickly find their way around while being productive.
  5. Teams also come with a more varied skill set, which often plays well with internal members and can prove to be a big boon for the company. Ideas can be brought forward quicker since most members would not conform to the ‘new-hire’ label within their teams.
  6. Teams can be more result oriented. Since hiring managers are more likely to push for result-driven teams, it becomes easier to assess past ROIs and successes. Also, you can quickly gauge efforts and convert them into results for the company.
  7. Teams are less likely to have interpersonal conflict as members are already accustomed to one another and have an existing professional relationship.

Hiring Teams with Turing

Although hiring teams is a novel concept, Turing has made it as simple as can be. The intelligent talent cloud at Turing uses AI to create exceptional, silicon-valley caliber teams for companies worldwide.

The rigorous vetting and matching system at Turing ensures that our engineers and team leaders are excellent in their tech stacks.

Additionally, Turing Teams are well-versed in corporate soft skills, making them uniquely suited for remote roles.

If you, too, are looking to fill multiple roles or wish to hire teams, check out Turing’s Hire Page.

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