Temporary workforce gains strength

Once viewed as a stopgap measure, the use of temporary workers is now included in the long-term planning efforts of many companies.
In a national study, more than 70 percent of executives polled said they rely on the staffing practice and include a place for it in their overall human resource budgets.
The study, which was commissioned by California-based OfficeTeam and conducted by an independent research firm, included interviews with 150 senior executives at the nation’s 1,000 largest companies.
Locally, one staffing service has seen its placement of temporary workers increase by a third in the past year because of increased demand by area companies

Technologies part in the Enterprise Process of Smart-sourcing

Smart-Sourcing is a business decision but, like so many business decisions in today's organizations, you cannot separate the business from the underlying technology. Doing so would be like a pilot trying to maneuver a plane without understanding the limits and capabilities of the aircraft. What's most important to keep in mind when considering how technology fits in is to look carefully at the ways in which the organization doing the Smart-Sourcing and the provider of the Smart-Sourcing link their technologies in order to achieve agility and accelerate innovation? It's fairly easy to have someone else perform a process, but not so easy to make sure that process continues to keep pace with every other aspect of your business after it's been outsourced. Smart-Sourcing requires greater synchronization and coordination of processes that may reside with multiple partners. That is primarily a technology challenge.

Welcome to Contract Labor

Workforce cost is the largest category of spend for most organizations.Automation and analysis of your recruiting and hiring processes provides the immediate workforce visibility and insights you need to significantly improve your bottom line.
Talent is what ultimately drives business success and creates value.Managers at leading organizations rely on contract labor companies to align talent with business objectives while significantly reducing process costs, improving quality of hire, reducing risk, and achieving higher levels of performance.