Temporary Help Agency Work

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Houseman in her article divides flexible staffing arrangements in five categories.
Temporary Help Agency Workers: Temporary agency are the companies that bridges the gap between labor force and the companies and can hired them for required period and paid through employment agencies.
Short-Term Hires: Short term hires are hired directly by the organization for limited period such as during festival seasons, summer and alike.
Regular Part-Time Workers: Workers in regular part time schedule and organizational payroll, works less than full-time employees but work for long term period or on regular basis.
On-call Workers: Workers who are called or asked to work whenever it is needed fall under this category. They are only called when …show more content…

Houseman (in the article) states that, traditionally, firms have used flexible staffing arrangements to reduce the number of workforce hired. Rather than other, reducing the quantity of labor hired was the primary reason for using flexible arrangements. Flexible staffing arrangements are used in the firms to adjust the labor staffs during the peak period in a day, week, month or year to manage the workload and letting the business go smoothly. Otherwise it will be a troublesome job or costlier and tough task to hire a new employee whenever needed for short busy time. Cutting costs can be another core reason for hiring flexible staffing arrangements. Temporary agency workers or the contract workers are not legal employees and are not bound in the collective agreements. So, the management without any legal trouble can lower the wages of specific groups to reduce the cost and along with that for the flexible staffing arrangements the employers needn’t have to provide benefits like that of regular part or full-time employees. In case of flexible arrangements, the firms or employees don’t have to comply with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and other benefits regulations in to receive preferential tax …show more content…

None of the full-time staffs can remain in the business forever. With on going the business staffs will be retired or leave the job or there will be the need of more labor to balance the workload on regular basis. In such a condition of labor scarce, it would be a rational and easier choice for the firm to hire a full-time staff from the flexible staffing arrangements instead of hiring a new one as flexible staffs will be loaded with some on job experiences and have some insight about organizational culture and

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