One handy benefit of
temping is the access to free training, which is particularly useful for anyone returning to work after a break, as well as 1 for those who are keen to move into a new field.
THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS?:
Temping may suit you best
"We see the need for a multipronged strategy because with the rise of
temping and a real restructuring of the labor market, there is absolutely no one fix," explains Tim Costello, director of the Boston-based Campaign on Contingent Work, an alliance member group.
Hoping that
temping will lead to a permanent position, he has signed up with two agencies--Tatum CFO and Robert Half International--but has not yet received assignments.
But, like Parker, Professor Rogers is also skeptical of the promise of full-time employment through
temping. "I call it 'the myth of the full-time job,'" she says.
Clearly, for most of these, "
temping" is not the permanent way of life it is made out to be.
New figures from a Confederation of British Industry survey, to be released in full in the autumn, revealed that 60% of firms quizzed are concerned the proposed EU
temping law - with the six-week concession - would lead to reduced
temping opportunities.
Many of the positive attributes of
temping, such as flexibility, were not only ignored, but challenged by the author.
Hoy, who works for Accountemps, a staffing service that places financial specialists, is one of a growing number of professionals opting for the
temping life.
In an earlier time, when temporary-employment agencies built their images on the fleets of well-turned-out young women they could dispatch to offices at a moment's notice, "
temping" was thought of, perhaps somewhat romantically, as a landing on the staircase to Something Better.