Enhancing Firms Competitiveness By Using Temporary Staff: Motivations And Implications

Abstract

The use of staffing agencies is steadily increasing. The study investigates the reasons for corporates to use temporary staff through staffing agencies. Apart from ease and speed of availability of specialized skills there are many other reasons to make use of temporary staff through staffing agencies which is worth exploring. Off late, majority of the companies use flexible workforce staff through staffing agencies to control the negative impact of attrition. The said study investigates motivations of companies to use flexi workforce who are on the rolls of the staffing firm and not the company that deploys them.