Office Temporary - Filling in the Office Void

2007-03-08 10:33:40

( Real Estate )



Your receptionist needs to take an emergency leave for a week because her father passed away. Or one of your office clerks has to go on military leave for an indefinite time period. While these little inconveniences happen all the time to all businesses big or small, they may adversely affect your daily operations. You realize that you can't just take them off your payroll, yet the rest of your staff is too swamped with work to fill in for the absent employees.

What is an Office Temporary?

As the name implies, an office temporary is someone you hire for only a short period of time, until your regular employee returns.

You contact an employment agency and inform them about the position or type of work needed to be filled and how long the office temporary will serve in your company. You also provide the desired work qualifications, as well as level of education and experience. The agency will match your requirements with the appropriate office temp.

Aside from the office temp's salary, you also pay the agency a fee for "leasing" their people.

Office Temping vs Employee Leasing

Office temping is very similar to employee leasing in the sense that you do not recruit, select or fire the employees who fill in your company's vacancies. The agency relieves you of these tasks. You do train and orient them according to your requirements, but ultimately they are under the agency's responsibility. If there is any valid reason for you to stop hiring them, you can just inform the agency about this and it will do the rest.

The only difference is that an office temp is hired for a limited period of time and for only a few positions, while employee leasing involves a longer period and more coverage, i.e. for an entire department. In office temping, you may still be maintaining your own Human Resources department, who will just take care of the temp's paperwork and payroll.

Benefits of Office Temping

In most cases, using an office temp will save you the time and effort of having to do the recruitment and background checking. The agency has a whole stock of available manpower qualified for all types of positions ranging from temporary secretary to accountant.

Since the office temp is under the control of the agency, you can easily replace him or her when needed. There are no long term benefits like health insurance or bonuses to pay since you are hiring for only a short time period.

As long as you comply with the terms of the arrangement, you will alleviate yourself and everyone in your office of the hassles of sudden temporary vacancies.


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