Temporary

Although Britain uses a higher proportion of Temporary staff compared to permanent employees than any of our European neighbors, some employers seem to have unjustified reservations.

In fact using temporary staff or a temporary staffing solution can be highly advantageous and has many benefits for organizations of all sizes, a suitable solution can normally be found to suit every situation or at least 95% of situations.

It is a particularly sensible approach during a recession and subsequent recovery, to consider a temporary staffing approach, especially where cost and productivity count most.


So, how can temporary staffing help?

The main benefits of temporary staffing can help:

Reduce overheads
Manage operating costs
Improve organizational performance by reducing risk, increasing flexibility and saving time

But, how?

Reduce costs

Temporary workers can provide the help needed for special projects, sudden order increases or peak workloads without increasing fixed payroll costs.
Overtime labour costs may be reduced by more than 20% by letting temporary workers, work the extra hours.

Reduce risk

Most agencies offer a ‘temp-to-perm’ option so that businesses may try out potential new employees.
Using temporary workers during peak periods relieves stress and prevents burnout among core employees, this can reduce absenteeism and potentially an employee’s compensation claims in the long run.
Using extra temporary workers as needed to smooth fluctuations in workload helps avoid layoffs by keeping core staff as lean as possible.

Increased flexibility

Using temporary workers as and when, lets companies respond to market demands quickly without adding to full-time staff.
Using temporary workers to handle non-core business functions allows regular staff to concentrate on core competencies.
During a recruitment freeze, using a temporary staffing agency can help handle the workload without increasing your direct permanent employee headcount.

Save time

Using temporary employees saves time in a number of ways:

With temporary staffing, the agency can perform all the advertising, screening, interviewing, testing and reference checking needed to attract and qualify potential permanent employees.
Because temporary workers are pre-screened for the necesary skills, less training is necessary before they can start work.

The agency will take care of temporary workers payroll processing and administration - and can often perform these services for a company's regular full-time staff as well.

Preparing for the recovery

After several years of layoffs, cut backs and keeping the company workforce as lean as possible, you will finally be poised to embrace an economic recovery. Though inevitable, it has not arrived yet. So how do you keep things moving in the interim?

Keep temporary staffing in mind. Using temporary workers boosts your productivity without raising your benefits costs. It allows you to keep full-time staff at a level you can afford and it gives you flexibility to meet market demands quickly, especially as those demands thrust your company into the new recovery.