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6 Productivity-Boosting Ways to Use Temporary Employees

In management, you're constantly tasked with finding new ways to drive productivity and performance -- even in tight talent markets and constantly changing business conditions.

A proactive, flexible staffing strategy can help:

  1. Increase Focus on Core Tasks
    Boost your team's productivity by allowing temporary employees to perform repetitive or administrative duties. Qualified temporaries may be more efficient at these tasks, freeing your staff to focus on the more skilled aspects of their jobs.

  2. Reduce Learning Curves
    Introducing new technology or processes? Make the transition seamless by bringing in temporary experts. From IT specialists to experienced business professionals, these individuals can teach new skills to your organization and drastically reduce learning curves.

  3. Minimize Position Vacancy Impact
    Good people are hard to find these days. A staffing agency can quickly provide experienced temporary workers with the skills you require, minimizing downtime and lost productivity. Should a temporary exceed your expectations while on assignment, a temp-to-hire conversion allows you to hire them directly.

  4. Reduce Employee Turnover
    Overtime can often be very stressful on employees, which can lead to burnout, decreased productivity and increased turnover. Using temporary workers can reduce or eliminate the need for overtime -- helping your staff stay fresh, productive and working for you.

  5. Ramp-up Operations -- Without Adding Overhead
    Temporary employees enable you to quickly increase your capacity without increasing your fixed costs. It also gives your company the time to evaluate the rise in demand and make educated hiring decisions for the long term.

  6. Prevent Bottlenecks
    When things get busy, your business can't afford to be understaffed. Using temporary employees can eliminate bottlenecks, allowing you to increase production levels and ensure no sales are lost.