Get the right people on your team,
without the hiring overhead.
We recruit, background-verify, and deploy full-time employees who work exclusively for you while staying on MotionLabs' payroll, compliance, and HR. You get the headcount and dedication of a full-time hire, without the entity, payroll, and compliance burden of employing them directly.
What It Is
Contract Staffing is a staffing model where a company provides pre-vetted, full-time employees who work exclusively for a client business, while remaining on the staffing company's payroll, compliance, and HR records.
In practice, that means MotionLabs recruits, background-verifies, and assesses a candidate, and that person then works full-time, on-site or remote, dedicated entirely to your company, attending your standups, using your tools, reporting to your managers, while MotionLabs handles their salary, statutory compliance, and employment paperwork. The client pays MotionLabs; MotionLabs pays and employs the resource.
The Impact
Why It Matters
For Founders & Non-Technical Hiring Managers
Hiring is slow, and hiring well is even slower. Between sourcing candidates, screening resumes, running interviews, verifying backgrounds, and setting up payroll and compliance for every new hire, most founders end up either hiring too slowly or hiring the wrong person under time pressure. Contract Staffing gives you a full-time team member, someone who works exclusively for you, every day, without you having to build an HR and payroll function to support them. You get the person; we handle the paperwork.
For CTOs & Technical Hiring Managers
This isn't a freelancer marketplace or a body-shop model. Candidates go through a structured hiring assessment before they're placed, technical screening, skills verification, and background checks, so the person joining your team is actually qualified for the role, not just available. Once placed, they work full-time and exclusively on your team, integrated into your sprints, your codebase, and your reporting lines like any other engineer, the employment relationship sits with MotionLabs, but the working relationship sits entirely with you.
What's Included
End-to-end recruitment and deployment.
Recruitment & Sourcing
Identifying and sourcing candidates that match your role, skill level, and team fit, technical and non-technical roles alike.
Hiring Assessment
Structured skills testing and technical or role-based assessment before a candidate is ever presented to you.
Background Verification
Employment history, education, identity, and reference checks completed before onboarding.
Contract Staffing / Deployment
The candidate joins your team full-time and exclusively, while remaining employed and payrolled by MotionLabs.
Payroll Management
Salary processing, payslips, and disbursement handled entirely by MotionLabs on your behalf.
Statutory Compliance
PF, ESI, gratuity, tax deductions, and other statutory employment compliance managed on the employee's behalf.
Onboarding & Documentation
Offer letters, employment contracts, and onboarding paperwork handled without adding to your HR workload.
Ongoing HR Support
Attendance, leave management, and day-to-day HR administration for the deployed employee.
Replacement & Backfill Support
If a placement isn't working out, we manage the replacement process without disrupting your team's ongoing work.
The Process
How We Work
Define the Role
We understand exactly who you need, skill set, experience level, seniority, and how they'll fit into your team.
Source & Assess
We source candidates and run them through hiring assessments and technical screening before anyone reaches you.
Verify & Present
Shortlisted candidates go through background verification before you interview and select the final hire.
Deploy & Manage
The candidate joins your team full-time and exclusively. MotionLabs handles payroll, compliance, and HR; you manage their day-to-day work.
Who This Is For
Founders who need to grow their team fast without building an HR and payroll function first.
Companies hiring across borders or regions where setting up a local entity isn't practical yet.
CTOs who need vetted engineering talent without running the full recruitment process in-house.
Businesses that want full-time, dedicated team members, not freelancers or shared contractors.
Teams that need to scale headcount up or down without the complexity of direct employment.
Frequently Asked Questions
Direct answers to help you understand our staffing model.
Contract Staffing is a staffing arrangement where a staffing company employs, pays, and manages compliance for a worker, while that worker is deployed to work full-time and exclusively for a client business.
Under Contract Staffing, the person works full-time and exclusively for one client, integrated into that client's team and processes, whereas freelancers and contractors typically split time across multiple clients and projects.
MotionLabs pays the employee's salary directly; the client company pays MotionLabs, which covers payroll, statutory compliance, and employment administration.
The employee works full-time for the client company, attending their meetings, using their tools, and reporting to their managers, while remaining formally employed by MotionLabs.
A hiring assessment is a structured evaluation of a candidate's skills and role-fit, which can include technical tests, case exercises, or role-specific screening, completed before a candidate is presented to the client.
Background verification typically includes employment history checks, education verification, identity confirmation, and reference checks completed before a candidate is onboarded.
Yes, this is one of the main advantages of the Contract Staffing model, since MotionLabs is the legal employer of record and handles local compliance, allowing a client to build a team in a location without setting up an entity there first.
MotionLabs manages the replacement and backfill process, sourcing and vetting a new candidate to minimize disruption to the client's ongoing work.
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