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TEMPORARY WORKFORCE This research paper traces

This research paper traces the development of large and growing contingent of temporary labor forces and discusses their origins, problems, challenges and broader implications for society in the future. The use of temporary personnel and the temporary services intermediary business has grown substantially during the past two decades, primarily in response to the restructuring and transformation of modern economies in the age of computerized information and global competition. The advantages of temporary workers to employers are obvious: lower cost and flexibility. By and large, temporary work status has been forced on the individuals involved as their only alternative to full-time employment. Organizations and managers have recently begun to realize the disadvantages of focusing only on the short-term cost savings of using temporary workers and have begun to address other issues which bear on how they can be most effectively used. Temporary workers are on their own and have very little legal protection.

Traditionally, a floating or transient work force was used to supplement regular employees in order to satisfy seasonal or other temporary needs, the migratory agricultural field hand, the Girl Friday and a vast host of domestic servants and others willing to perform menial tasks on a free-lance basis.

Since 1980, the contingent worker, the person who works temporarily, whether under contract or otherwise, has become a permanent fixture in the workplace in the developed world. This trend is evident throughout the industrialized world, such workers making up 30 percent, 20 percent and 10 percent, respectively, of the work force in 1995 in Great Britain, France and Germany (Templeton 54). In the United States, temporary or part-time workers made up 25 percent of the total American work force in 1993, 30 percent in 1996 and may account for 50 percent by the turn of the century (Bianco A5; McWhirter 41). Between 1982 and 1983, the...

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