Conditions within your company and the economy are constantly changing. Here are 10 examples of how you can use temporary employees to drive performance, overcome talent shortages and increase productivity:

1. Better Manage Your Workload
   Boost the productivity of your core staff by allowing temporary employees to handle administrative duties. A good temp may be more efficient at administrative tasks and will free your staff to focus on the more skilled aspects of their jobs.


2. Retain Top Employees
   Overtime can often be very stressful on employees, which can lead to burnout, decreased productivity and higher turnover. Using temporary workers can reduce or eliminate the need for overtime, which helps your staff stay fresh, productive and motivated to stay working for you.


3. Minimize Hiring Risks
   Use temporary workers to fill in during job candidate searches to ensure that nothing falls through the cracks. Temps can provide the needed support, so hiring decisions don't have to be rushed and productivity doesn't fall while you're searching for the perfect candidate.


4. Shorten Learning Curves
   From IT specialists to experienced business professionals, temporary experts can be brought in to teach new skills to your organization and drastically reduce learning curves.


5. Overcome Talent Shortages
   If you're struggling to recruit good employees on your own, a staffing firm can quickly provide qualified workers with the skills and experience you require. Should a temporary exceed your expectations while on assignment, a temp-to-hire conversion allows you to hire them directly.


6. Increase Capacity
   Using temporary employees gives you the flexibility to 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.


7. Eliminate Bottlenecks
   Peak production periods often leave businesses understaffed. Using temporary employees can eliminate bottlenecks and allow your business to increase production levels and ensure no sales are lost.


8. Test New Ideas
   Before increasing your permanent workforce to implement a new concept, try testing the idea with temporary employees. The temporaries can be directly involved in the testing or fill in for your direct staff who are working on the new concept.


9. Manage Rapid Growth
   Staffing services can reduce the many burdens created by rapid growth. Temporary workers can be used to fill in for staff who are developing plans for further expansion. They can also alleviate the additional administrative work that comes with that growth.


10. Deal With Uncertainty
    If your business is facing an uncertain future, using temporary staff can help keep your workforce flexible. Using temps to supplement your direct staff gives you the flexibility to increase production when demand is high... and keep your fixed overhead low.

Want a stronger, more flexible and profitable organization? Your staffing partner is an indispensable ally. Give us a call to find out what we can do for you!