For Americans who can’t find jobs, the booming demand for temp workers has been a path out of unemployment, but now many fear it’s a dead-end route.
With full-time work hard to find, these workers have built temping into a de facto career, minus vacation, sick days or insurance. The assignments might be temporary — a few months here, a year there — but labor economists warn that companies’ growing hunger for a workforce they can switch on and off could do permanent damage to these workers’ career trajectories and retirement plans.
“It seems to be the new norm in the working world,” said Kelly Sibla, 54. The computer systems engineer has been looking for a full-time job for four years now, but the Amherst, Ohio, resident said she has to take whatever she can find.
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No surprise with the current 'job-killing' environment....
ReplyDeleteIt's a really good way to select permanent employees.Employers have been having a hard time finding good employees based only on their applications,resumes,and references.Constant texting on the job is a no no,unless the text messages in question apply to the job.Who wants to hire anyone who won't give 100% to their job? The temp concept weeds them out.
ReplyDeleteIt should be illegal for any company to create a "temp" position that lasts more than 90 days.
ReplyDeleteAfter 90 days the person should be considered a regular employee.
Cry me a river. Blame the "job creators" that the GOP loves so much. More like profiteers of misery.
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