Despite recent green shoots in the economy, there’s a lot of uncertainty about how strong the recovery will be. Many of us in recruiting are proceeding with caution, but we also face the need to provide labor to meet increased demand for goods and services. Some organizations have turned to temporary hires to address the up-tick in demand. In the US, despite the increase in unemployment rate to 10.2% in October, the economy added 34,000 temporary jobs last month.
There are many benefits to hiring workers on a temporary basis (and keeping in mind the possibility of converting some of those workers to permanent workers in the future). Temporary workers:
- Provide an opportunity to evaluate performance and fit to see if they should be retained as a permanent employee
- Don’t usually need to be given costly health or retirement benefits
- Protect the organization from further layoffs by creating a more flexible labor force
In this labor market, many job seekers who would not have considered a temporary job before are now more open to the discussion of temporary work. This change in outlook provides us, as recruiters, with more options in hiring workers on a temporary basis.
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