Hiring entire teams blends both old and new in one useful package

When making hiring decisions, it is typical to hire and staff teams by individual. Occasionally, you may bring in a pair of other employees from a different department, but in general teams are composed piecemeal of people who were, individually, the right person for their position. In many cases, this works well.
 

But there are drawbacks

At the same time, the HR department that often oversees hiring decisions will also see a number of transfers between departments, and even resignations. Conflict can arise when two individuals, both hired for a given purpose and both effective at accomplishing that, meet. A well-working team is more than the sum of its parts, producing results that they could not reach working separately. Such a team is less likely to produce results that will benefit a business.
 

Hiring existing teams solves that problem and several others

Recently, it has become more feasible to hire entire teams which worked together previously. If a given company's HR department does not provide for group interviews, these teams may instead be found advertising themselves on online job boards and elsewhere. Hiring these teams ensures that they will already have an established and consistent level of throughput, and it also provides the company with any benefits their particular approaches might provide.

Of course, many of these advantages can also become drawbacks in the wrong situation. Hired teams introducing their own approaches can conflict with existing inter-team dynamics that individuals might adapt to more easily. Thus, it is key that a team be oriented to the company where they are hired, introduced to other existing teams, and otherwise integrated carefully into the workplace, even though they work well amongst one another.