Disadvantages Of Flexible Staffing

To follow-up our meeting with Mr. Jacoby from Flexible Staffing Services (FSS), I have reviewed my notes and would like to share my findings with you about how FSS could help the Kaiser Manufacturing Company (KMC). As with any business decision, there are pros and cons that must be considered. This decision is no different, and requires careful thought and consideration. I have summarized what I believe are the strengths and weaknesses of using a flexible staffing company, along with the use of FSS below. There are many advantages and disadvantages of using a flexible staffing company. Advantages include having temporary employees when the production level increases suddenly and is not predicted to last long, reducing the amount of overtime,

The employees of a flexible staffing company might be in various categories, such as production, sales, or management; but this does not mean they will know how to do every job they are sent to. This could result in lost production time as they need to be trained in order to work safely and effectively in the new company. Employees of flexible staffing companies often earn lower wages than people in similar job categories. In addition to lower wages, the employees earn fewer benefits as they are usually not considered full-time employees and are not normally offered health insurance or retirement plans. Lastly, employees of flexible staffing companies have a division of supervision. They technically work for the staffing company and are hired by the other company. This can lead to confusion on who to contact for personal requests and who to bring work related discrepancies

Advantages of FSS include having employees on an as-needed basis, provides employees in four main groups and employees can be full-time or part-time, and employees can be strictly temporary or can move to a permanent position after a 90-day trial period. Having employees on an as-needed basis would result in reduced downtime as the changing production demands can be constantly met. Since these changes are often unknown, no prior knowledge of the change in demands or request to have extra employees is required. The four main groups would allow KMC to staff professional or administrative, secretarial, technical, and manufacture jobs through the same company. This would benefit KMC as they would only need to contact FSS to gain employees for those tasks. The employees being full-time or part-time is another benefit. This allows for more flexible scheduling and the number of employees that would be required. Having the option to make temporary employees permanent employees is another advantage. This can reduce the amount of time that a company spends on recruiting an employee for the job and allows the employee a chance to perform the job before deciding to make it