Temping: An Introduction

The constantly changing business scenario of global competition and labor scarcity has made ‘temping’ an effective HR strategy that proffers various employment solutions to businesses. Its popularity is mainly attributed to its creation of competitive advantage for the companies in terms of greater workforce flexibility, increased profit, cost efficiency, and maintenance of a continuous business cycle. This has led to rapid growth of the temporary staffing industry. Temping firms provide a wide array of HR services from recruitment to end-to-end activity management, which has encouraged many industries to use temps as never before, thus making temping a booming business that contributes in a big way to the global economy and employment for all. This book is designed to provide a logical elucidation of the significance of temping as an HR strategy that provides the clients an excellent business result. It also highlights the temping trends in India and the world.