Northern Beaches Employers Guide to:

Temporary Staffing

Northern Beaches 

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Peninsula Personnel

Professional, Talented and Cost-Effective... Temporary Staffing Northern Beaches:

Most Definitely a Cheaper Alternative!

While employers can still rely on agencies to provide reception/administration staff to meet their short-term or longer-term needs, there is a growing trend towards agencies providing organisations with more experienced, specialised professionals to handle more complex positions for a longer length of time.

Increasingly companies are facing pressure to “do more with less” and the alternative of temporary on hire casual staff is growing as a popular trend.

Agencies can provide a wide range of personnel from clerical staff stuffing envelopes to executives and company Directors, there can also be a number of benefits to the organisation by reducing overhead costs. Since 2007 many employee’s faced redundancies and job cuts in and around Australia, there were thousands of highly skilled people being forced out of work.

Many of these people turned to agencies to bridge the gap until they secured something more permanent once the economy picked up. This meant that temporary staffing agencies were full with extremely qualified casual staff, ready and willing to take on work often with a broader job scope than their previous specialised role. This meant that the companies were getting more for their money with more experienced staff to assist them in a number of areas within different organisations.

A cheaper alternative – most definitely!

The issue of cost is obviously the most crucial issue to many businesses, staffing costs are often one of the biggest items on the profit & loss report – minimising this expense is often achieved by using trained, professional temporary staff. 

Companies need to be flexible during different stages and swings in the marketplace and temporary staff members are now very much an integral part of today’s workforce.

The cost involved in recruiting a permanent employee who does not work out can be wasted time, not to mention impaired productivity and lowered morale within the department, team or business. The concept of “try before you buy” before offering that permanent position is often a smart way to ensure you are getting the best employee for the role as well as having lower financial costs.

Benefits:

• Reduce payroll expenses by adding staff only when needed
• By analysing future workloads, staffing plans can be put in place – never be caught out
• Using temporary staff instead of overtime reduces labour costs by 20% or more
• Reduce training costs and improve productivity by employing skilled workers
• Save time & money on qualifying if the person can perform the task
• Focus on core activity – if a business is understaffed, there is a lower probability of meeting productivity targets

The agency does all the work for you and they become their employer. The agency is responsible for the employee and bears the financial costs and time involved in recruiting, screening, skills testing, referencing, payroll expenses, paperwork, payroll, withholding taxes and workers’ compensation Insurance.

The candidates are already screened, skills tested and referenced before they even start.

• Once the agency knows your business it will reduce the hiring process immensely.
• By pushing permanent staff to produce more with few increases in resources is not good for stress levels which overall will affect productivity, days off and turnover = burnout.

Temporary staff can be a brilliant answer to short-term technical projects and assistance in system implementation, setting up databases, procedures and processes or undertaking that long overdue marketing campaign – designing new brochures and marketing material.

They can be used for the length of the project and let go when there is no longer a need for their skills. The cost of hiring temp workers is often cheaper than the cost of hiring permanent employees with benefits. In the short term, it is generally more cost-efficient to hire a temp. 

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