Temporary workforce management software for contractual hires and temporary staff, shift patterns and rotation offering in-depth reporting and booking systems
In recent years there has been a significant increase in companies opting for contractual hiring. That is, hiring temporary employees rather than taking on permanent employees. Companies have been choosing to move towards contractual hiring because of the many advantages it can have for their business. These advantages span almost all areas of the business and taking on temporary staff can be convenient, flexible and allow businesses to save time and money.
Direct hire and contractual hiring
Direct hire candidates or permanent employees are employed directly by a business, sometimes with the help of a recruitment company. These employees are paid a fixed salary, have a permanent contract and have certain benefits. The term contractual hiring is used to refer to the process of hiring temporary staff who are employed on a fixed contract. The period for the contract is set, contractors are not given statutory benefits and at the end of the contract, the company has the discretion to either continue with the employment or terminate.
What are the advantages of contract hiring?
There are many reasons why there has been an increase in contractual hire in recent years and these reasons concern every aspect of the recruitment and employment process, starting with the wider jobs market and industry fluctuations.
Convenience and speed
By hiring temporary staff on short term contracts, companies are able to scale up their workforce swiftly if circumstances change at short notice. It is usually possible to fast track the whole process when hiring temporary staff as they often do not need to work long periods of notice. This means if there are fluctuations in workload, in the industry or with the wider employment market, as we have seen in recent times, businesses can be ready to react quickly.
Contractual hiring can also be very convenient. It can offer companies the opportunity to take on employees quickly while they take time to recruit for a permanent position, or to trial a temporary worker with the view to assessing performance and possibly offering a permanent position.
Financial incentives
Companies are able to make financial savings by hiring temporary workers as although they are able to increase their overall workforce, this can be done without adding to the company’s long term permanent costs, which is useful especially for seasonal businesses. At the end of a contract period, the employer is able to terminate the employment should they face financial hardship and they are not required to pay extra costs of benefits as they would for permanent staff.
Temporary workforce management software ensures the efficiency of the whole process.
These days recruitment companies are able to use temporary workforce management software which manages the whole process of employing temporary staff. Modern software is able to create, manage and organise complex shift schedules and rotations, temporary shifts, booking confirmations and timesheet approval, and also billing.
Whereas it once would have been time-consuming and taken great effort to hire and organise the changing needs of temporary staff, advanced software systems are able to create booking templates and can produce in-depth reports so everything is monitored for optimum efficiency.
Using temporary workforce management software allows recruiters to both speed up communication and improve client-candidate interactions, using SMS and email features and saved templates. The communication process is streamlined and correspondence can be tracked, making it easier for all parties to keep up to date with the latest interactions and minimising misunderstandings and miscommunications.
Providing the client and candidate with complete visibility of, for example, filled vacancies, available shifts and shift patterns, rates of pay and hours worked, ensures that both parties are well informed and in the loop.
It’s clear then that companies are opting for contractual hiring because, in today’s ever-changing world, taking on temporary staff can allow flexibility that committing to hiring permanent staff simply does not allow, allowing companies to act swiftly, react to changes in demand and potentially save time and money. Recruitment companies are able to use dynamic software to easily manage contract hiring and this ensures the process is straightforward and efficient.
