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September 22, 2026 | 15 min

Embedded, Scheduled or Dispatched: Choosing an Onsite IT Pattern for a Hong Kong Office of 40

A decision guide for the regional IT manager responsible for a 30-60 person Hong Kong office with no local IT person. The three onsite patterns Hong Kong buyers actually ask for, what each is genuinely good at, the break-even band computed from Brocent's published Hong Kong dispatch and dedicated-engineer rates, the four variables that move the answer, and why the hands layer belongs inside a managed plan rather than beside it.