Odyssey Staffing

Odyssey Staffing provides offshore staff for the real estate industry, drawing on talent in the Balkans who work U.S. hours and use the client's own tools. It says it handles recruiting, onboarding, training, local-law compliance, payroll administration, accounting and IT and security for its clients.

Clients can engage it through two models. Dedicated Staffing places full-time embedded professionals who work exclusively for one client. Shared Services gives on-demand access to specialist teams for project-based work, overflow and surge periods. The roles covered include property and asset management, construction and project management, estimating, accounting and finance, engineering, architecture and design, acquisitions and development, contracting and risk management, and IT support. It reports all-in cost savings of 50-70% versus domestic labor and says deployment typically takes two to three weeks.

The company was built over more than a dozen years as the in-house offshoring infrastructure for Spaxel, a vertically integrated owner, operator and developer of institutional real estate assets. Granit Gjonbalaj is CEO. It has a Kosovo office and a New York address.