Temp Jobs Surge as Firms Contain Expenses

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Temp Jobs Surge as Firms Contain Expenses

The Outlook
Some Experts Say It Marks a Lasting Change in the Economy
By Damian Paletta
April 6, 2014 7:42 p.m. ET

The economy is creating jobs. But how many of them will endure?

The "short-term" staffing industry is enjoying a long-term boom, with temps accounting for more than one-tenth of all job growth since 2009, according to government data.

[Rod Beauvex]

1. I refuse to use a staffing service anymore.

Fuck temp services. These things need to be fucking outlawed.

I'd rather, and have done and continue to do so, sit on my ass while my life passes me by rather the use a staffing service.

[Warpy]

2. I worked for a nursing agency in Boston, loved the variety

and loved the paycheck, didn't love the lack of bennies. The agency charged the hospitals three times what they paid me and that's probably industry standard for temp workers. At that, I was making 2 1/2 times what a hospital had been paying me.

It allowed me to save an additional 10K to leave Boston with and that was the best part. The worst part was walking onto a unit where a temp nurse from another company had just been discovered passed out in the staff loo with a needle in her arm, happened twice.

Temp and agency work has its place, but it should never be permanent. At some point, employers are ging to want to stop paying through the nose and hire people. Temp workers can be the first considered since they're known quantities. I know I had to turn down a lot of great jobs in Boston because I was leaving town.

[elleng]

3. Not 'news,' imo,

been happening for years.

[Kahuna]

4. Yep. Not new news at all. nt