Today, business is conducted on somewhat different conditions than it was 10, 15 and 20 years ago. Current trends show that all processes within the company began to go much faster, and the business device model itself has become much more flexible. Take at least the issue of hiring employees.
Traditional model
It used to be assumed that the company should have an established staff of employees performing certain functional duties. At least, this approach seemed traditional and unshakable: cleaners, security guards, ordinary employees, managers, etc. should work in the company.
Today, completely new trends prevail in the issue of hiring specialists, which allow not only to seriously reduce the costs of company owners, but also to organize work at a whole new level and to get a quality product as a result. For more information on how it is customary to organize the work of a business in the matter of hiring personnel today, read this article.
Modern approach: tasks and solutions
Now people doing their work can be "leased out" or transferred for "temporary use." No, of course, these are just speech turns. In fact, a person works completely on his own initiative, and companies are engaged in the transfer of the results of his work or functional duties. The center for organizing such an “exchange” is a recruitment agency, of which a large number of people work in the labor market today.
In fact, the existence of such companies organizing a massive recruitment of employees is useful both to companies that need the services of the latter, and to the staff themselves who are looking for work. After all, everyone benefits from such a combination.
Instead of searching for permanent specialists for one position, sometimes it is more profitable for enterprises to receive personnel services on a temporary basis. This is where leasing of personnel comes into play.
In some cases, the company has a lot of difficulties with the need to manage employees, pay off them, pay taxes for them and make hiring and dismissals in the event that a person does not fulfill his duties. Once again, this is the recruiting agency, whose task is outstaffing and staff leasing. Such solutions significantly simplify the life of many business owners, forcing them to forget about all the tasks associated with employees, and allowing us to focus on in-line business processes.
Finally, there are situations when companies need services, but not employees of this profile on an ongoing basis. In order not to hire people for a short period, and then not to fire them, there is such a category as personnel outsourcing.
The above three schemes for hiring people and obtaining their labor results constitute a modern approach. They came from the West, where they have long been in demand in the business sector, while we are just starting to take root. Read about their features below.
Staff leasing
Note that the scheme works primarily for employees performing basic functions such as cleaning, security, food accounting in a supermarket and so on. These are duties that, firstly, provide for a large amount of routine, low-skilled work, and secondly, are not tied to a specific place of work (can be performed at any enterprise in approximately the same conditions).At least in the retail sphere, leasing of temporary staff is the most popular and relevant phenomenon: a huge number of people who want to get temporary part-time work through it. Often they are employed in supermarkets.
Cashiers, security guards, and repair technicians can be hired in the same way. All these people can work in different places, but at the same time they will have a steady income and stable employment.
In industry, leasing of production personnel is widespread. These are employees with the qualifications and knowledge to work with some kind of industrial equipment. Again, such specialists can work in different factories, but the meaning of their work is, for example, in setting up or servicing the same mechanism.
Benefits
Actually, we have already begun to list the advantages of such a phenomenon as staff leasing. For employees, this is an opportunity to be guaranteed to be busy (if today there is no job for a cleaner in one supermarket, then there is sure to be one in another). For a company that, on the contrary, needs such personnel, this is an opportunity to get a qualified employee with guarantee. Suppose a cashier leaves your supermarket.
You don’t have time to look for a new one and study it. There is only one way out - to apply to a recruitment agency, and tomorrow a new specialist will be sent to you. As a result, it will turn out to be more convenient, faster and cheaper (because you will not need to take care of his training and search). Also, a recruitment agency fully services such an employee. Due to which, staff leasing reduces a lot of time expenses and at the same time allows focusing on other tasks.
Outstaffing
The second category is used in a slightly different situation. Suppose you have a company with 100 employees. However, you (as a leader) are too depressed by the obligation to deal with their execution, control, payment of taxes and other issues. You would like to do business, and delegate such tasks to specialists. The solution is outstaffing.
It works very simply: you re-register your employees as personnel of another company. The latter, as a result of this, will settle accounts with them and take care of all legal issues. Your task is only to pay for its services.
Benefits
That it is very beneficial is obvious. Firstly, this company will professionally cope with its duties, as its employees have an idea of how the hiring market works, what features should be taken into account, what legal issues need to be addressed, and so on. Secondly, outstaffing is beneficial because a company specializing in this, unlike yours, will be able to better optimize tax costs and organize all work in such a way that formally there are no problem situations. At the same time, all employees will continue to go to your office and do your tasks. With outstaffing, please do not confuse staff leasing, which provides outsiders. In this case, employees remain “their own”, however, they are formalized as “strangers”.
Outsourcing
Finally, it was the turn of the third category, which we characterize today. It is also of great practical importance. Outsourcing of staff is often used in areas such as law and accounting, as well as IT. Keeping a full-time lawyer (or an accountant - there is no difference on this issue) is quite disadvantageous: as a specialist, this person gets experience in only one plane, because of which his knowledge and skills become too narrowly focused. At the same time, it is possible to attract an employee of a law firm on the basis of outsourcing on more affordable terms, paying only for the final product of his labor.
The same applies to programmers, designers, developers and other areas of intellectual work, in which the specialist is not valued, but the result of his work.
Benefits
Outsourcing has a lot of advantages. Firstly, this lack of need to seek a specialist, select him among other candidates for the position. Secondly, you have no obligation to formalize it and pay taxes. Thirdly, you do not think about how to create conditions for his work. All that you get in the end is the product that you originally needed, the features of which you specified.
findings
In this article, we have described such concepts as company staff leasing, outstaffing and outsourcing. As you can see, these terms define different categories, which nevertheless operate in the same field (staff rental, delegation of labor of specialists). All of them simplify the tasks facing the employer in normal conditions.
As you can see, today personnel leasing staff outstaffing and outsourcing is becoming more popular. This is the best indicator of the viability of this model, its effectiveness and profitable work in practice. We can say that there are more and more recruiting agencies in this industry, their “portfolio” of specialists is constantly growing, but the demand for the services of the latter remains quite stable.
