Thursday, May 30, 2013

Temporary Staff, the Main Stream Alternative

by Nancy Molloy, Managing Director, CompliStaff, Inc.

Changing health insurance law effecting small businesses with just fifty employees is forcing hiring managers to seek taffing solutions that make sense in order to ensure peak productivity, growth and profits.

Temporary staffing, sometimes referred to as contingent staffing or contracting, is designed so that a manager can have more hands on deck whenever needed, with no expense or obligation beyond the term of the engagement.

Skilled temporary personnel are professionals just like you and me.  And today’s temps do everything from packing crates to running businesses; they are doctors and lawyers, they are CCO's and COO's as well as analysts and paralegals and auditors.

Temporary staffing offers flexibility for a line item that has traditionally been a fixed expense - personnel.  In the temporary staffing model you pay a fixed hourly rate excluding lunch hour and other time off and gain the skills and talent needed for only as long as needed, with no long-term commitment. And, you can staff up or staff down depending upon workload demand.

The staffing company is the employer of record and assumes all obligations with respect to payroll taxes including unemployment, worker’s compensation and healthcare, as required by law.

The opportunity to engage the skills you need, when you need, with no long-term commitment, is flexibility where it counts!  If you are not employing temporary staff as a staffing strategy, please do not delay or you risk losing an important competitive advantage.