Have you considered temporary labour as part of your company's growth strategy? If not, you should! Having temporary workers on hand at your company can help you to deal with uncertain demand/production levels, control your costs, and provides you with help when you need it. Not only that, but if you like the temporary worker, you can hire them on permanently to your team.
Liberty Staffing Services is an award-winning, fully licensed, independent staffing agency with multiple branch locations across Ontario. First established in 1999, Liberty Staffing has been offering quality flexible staffing solutions to local businesses for 25 years!
We offer temporary, temporary-to-permanent, and permanent staff within factory, warehouse, industrial, manufacturing, and office sectors. The geographical areas that we service include: Cambridge, Guelph, Kitchener/Waterloo, London, Stratford, and Woodstock, Ontario.
There are many great benefits to using temporary workers at your company. Here's more information about how temporary workers can help your company grow.
Help You Deal With Uncertainty
Perhaps the biggest benefit of hiring temporary labourers in a growing business is that this workforce comes with flexibility. That can help you deal with uncertainty.
Growing businesses often face both stops and starts in demand. One month you may see a spike in sales, while another month you settle to previous levels. It can be difficult to determine what is your “new normal” and what’s a blip on the radar.
Temporary labour gives you the workforce you need when you need it. When demand jumps, you can get the extra help you require to meet it. If you then see a downward trend, you can pare back the workforce until the next rush arrives.
Control Your Costs
Temporary labour also helps you keep better tabs on your costs during the ups and downs of growth. You don’t have to worry about having too many people on board past a certain date if demand is uncertain. That can help you keep costs in check.
Adding temporary workers to your workforce can also keep your current team members happy. They’re less likely to feel overwhelmed, which means they’re more likely to stay. That can reduce turnover and minimize hiring costs.
Have the Help You Need, When You Need It
Another benefit of adding temporary labour to a growing business is that you can access additional help when you need it.
It’s often faster and easier to hire on a few temporary workers than it is to go through the hiring process for permanent employees.
If demand stays high and extra help is still needed, you can re-hire past temporary workers.
Testing Future Permanent Employees
Temporary workers may be willing to work with you on a seasonal or flexible basis. You can hire them on for a contract while demand is high, then let them go when and if demand falls. If demand rises or stays steady, you can often hire the same people back.
What about if demand rises and just keeps rising? What if it never levels off? Then you might need to consider bringing on more permanent employees.
If that’s the case, then you could consider bringing on some of your best-performing temporary workers. Having worked with them before, you already know about their skills and their organizational fit. That means you don’t have to go through a lengthy application, interview, and hiring process.
Instead, you could accelerate the process by bringing on someone you already know fits the bill. You may even be able to reduce the time it takes to get them up to speed, because they’re already trained to work with you.
In that way, you can think of temporary work as a “trial period”, or an audition, for working with you on a permanent basis.
Partner With Liberty Staffing Services
You might be convinced temporary labour should be part of your growth strategy. If that’s the case, it’s time to get in touch with Liberty Staffing Services! We can help you find the great temporary talent you need.
