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Agencies Pros Cons of Temporary
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In this day and age where competition between organisations grows fiercer by the day
businesses need to focus on their core activities without having to worry about the non-revenue
generating departments like HR Finance IT maintenance and the likes.
While these sectors add value to the organisation they also consume a sizeable chunk of the
resources. This is because they need significant investment for infrastructure and resources that
could otherwise have been utilised elsewhere.
Of the different investment avenues the most important one is usually human resources. The
very activities of staffing training and allotment diverts resources that could’ve been used by
the organisation for their core activities. It is in these times that temporary staffing agencies
come in handy.
Basically temporary staffing agencies take care of the end-to-end process of recruitment
while ensuring that the job profile is met. This is particularly helpful because the revenue models
of some businesses are usually in the form of projects which are exceedingly seasonal in
nature. Instead of investing in resources that would have to be let go later on due to uncertainty
in the seasonality of the project or the uncertainty of revenue flow companies rely on these
temporary staffing agencies.
How Do Temporary Staffing Agencies Work
For example temporary staffing agencies in India can provide human resources to a
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slide 2: company that wants to employ a worker for temporary purposes and a temporary time period.
The organisation in question will have to provide a list of the qualifications that they need from
the prospective employee as well as a tentative time frame.
Commonly these temporary staffing agencies have a markup of 12-40 on the hourly rate of
the employee. The job of withholding statutory amounts of money is usually on the temporary
staffing agency which means that the companies need not worry about that aspect as well.
Companies only have to pay anywhere between 112-140 of the hourly rate of the employee
and the other aspects are taken care of by the temporary staffing agency.
Apart from this all the legal compliances that are unique to any particular project or industry are
also taken care of by the temporary staffing agency. All that a business has to do as a
principal employer is to ensure that it is happening.
Is Temporary Staff On-Par with Permanent Staff
This usually depends on what the contract between the organisation and the temporary
staffing agency dictates. Sometimes the temporary staffing agency itself might offer health
benefits and medical insurance apart from leaves but more often than not that depends heavily
on how a particular person is associated with the temporary staffing agency.
Pros of Working With a Temporary Staffing Agency
1. The negotiations usually remain the same. This means that the hourly payment that has to be
made to the employees usually are the same.
2. A temporary staffing agency ideally doesn’t take a cut from the employee or charge
anything like a placement fee which means there is no need to track the actual number of
placements.
3. Some temporary staffing agencies provide a fixed fee irrespective of the hours worked on a
project and provide clauses for leaves and unsanctioned leaves. In those cases payroll
companies can track employee performance easily.
4. It becomes easy to track their performance to inform the companies on whom to recommend
based on the frequency of allotment to projects.
Despite all these pros there are times where it can become quite hectic to manage a
temporary staffing agency . Naturally there will be some cons also. Some of those have been
mentioned below:
Cons of Working with A Temporary Staffing Agency
1. Onboarding becomes difficult because of the diverse nature of the employees and the various
departments that they have to be allocated to.
2. Legal compliances that are to be adhered to by the principal employer may be burdensome.
3. Understanding the industry-specific compliances and provisions that are required to be made
can become tedious.
4. Some industries require a specialised software to manage the payroll which can become a
burden.
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slide 3: Overcoming The Problems With PaySquare
PaySquare is a payroll service and resource management platform that oversees all your
payroll requirements. They help you make sure that you can take care of your business without
having to worry about this aspect and focus on your core revenue generating activities.
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