As an employer, your daily goal is to ensure all processes within your company run as smoothly as possible. Growth and development are key for you. To achieve this, you need the right personnel. By this, we mean not only staff with the necessary skills, but also personnel you can deploy in the way you require. Both temporary staffing and secondment are flexible solutions.
By utilising temporary staff or working with seconded professionals, you can, for example, manage busy periods and demanding projects. Temporary staffing and secondment are sometimes confused. Although they are indeed similar, there are also differences between them. GJ GROEP tells you more about it.
What is temporary staffing?
Our company has years of experience in matching temporary staff with clients. Temporary staffing is a highly flexible form of employment where the employee is not directly employed by you as the employer, but by a temporary staffing or recruitment agency. Therefore, they do not have an employment contract with you. This means you are not responsible for payroll administration and other matters. Of course, you remain responsible for a safe, pleasant workplace.
What is secondment?
With a secondment agreement, you also opt for a flexible form of employment. However, this involves a slightly different situation. Secondment agreements generally last longer than temporary staffing agreements. While the secondment agency is still the formal employer in this case, the fulfilment of a temporary position may eventually lead to you employing this person. By first opting for secondment, you can get to know them much better. Moreover, you can use that period to assess how work processes develop and whether a regular employment contract is desirable based on that.
The main difference between secondment and temporary staffing
Temporary staffing and secondment are therefore very similar, but the difference between them is the duration of employment. Secondment is by definition about a long-term placement. Could you use some help with the recruitment and selection of temporary workers? We would be happy to assist you with this! Incidentally, we can also take over the recruitment and selection process if you are looking for an employee for a permanent position. Finally, you can also outsource payroll and outsource back office to us, again benefiting from flexibility and time savings.
What suits your situation, secondment or temporary staffing?
If you have not worked with temporary workers before, it can be difficult to determine whether you should choose temporary staffing or secondment. It is important to take your time with this choice, as it often has an underestimated impact on the workflow within your company. Therefore, always carefully consider the exact needs of your business. If you are looking for a temporary solution, temporary staffing will often be the most obvious choice. If you want a long-term solution? Then you will often opt for secondment.
Need help with your choice? Contact us. We would be happy to tell you about the benefits. We can also help you through HR advice.
