Some Considerations About Temporary Agencies In Canada

By Adriana Noton

The unfortunate reality of our current economic times is that many people are suddenly losing their jobs. Without temporary agencies to find these people at least some short term work, many families would be facing even greater hardship.

The difficult aspect about hiring people is that you cannot predict what the exact number of jobs should be. Business has its ups and downs, so that a company could be busy during one month, but not be busy the next. A company's profits have to keep at least a steady pace in order for all employees to keep their jobs.

From the company's point of view, they could experience a surge in demand suddenly. Of course, they cannot expect that that demand will always be there, and they have to expect that it will level off and even decline. In this temporary situation, temporary workers are a good fit because they will apply on the understanding that they will not always be needed, and there will be no hard feelings when their contracts end.

In Canada, many of the new jobs that are being added to the economy are short-term ones and not permanent. Many are critical of this, saying that permanent jobs are better than temp jobs. This might be true to some extent, but at least there are jobs for people to work, even if it is for a limited time. In the U. S., even temporary jobs are hard to come by, causing the economy to shrink. So it can be seen that a temporary agency places an important role in alleviating economic hardship.

An agency operates by acquiring contracts with employers to undertake recruitment for them. This might be limited to collecting resumes of potential employees and submitting them to the employer, who then makes the decision on their own. Sometimes, the agency is authorized to make the hiring decision on their own. The agency is able to charge a commission on the employee's pay for the services it performed.

In Canada, many jobs in manufacturing have been lost. It is difficult to hire the workers who worked these jobs because they had specific skills, sometimes acquired through decades of working the same job. Job agencies were able to step in and offer them some short term assignments, and sometimes these led to permanent placements. If it had not been for agencies, many people would have been collecting employment insurance benefits, which would have been a drain on the Canadian economy as a whole.

Temporary agencies come in all kinds of sizes. The bigger ones have more jobs to offer, but the advantage of the smaller ones is that they charge less in commissions, which makes them appealing to both employers and employees. As long as the agency is a reputable one, they are all worth considering.

Temporary agencies are useful for both employers and employees when there is no economic stability. In these difficult times, the role they play is an important one. One cannot underestimate how much worse things might have been if they had not been around. - 32171

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