Deciding Whether To Use Flexible Staffing

Deciding Whether to Use Flexible Staffing Deciding Whether to Use Flexible Staffing Name:Institutional Affiliation:Deciding Whether to Use Flexible StaffingFlexible StaffingFlexible staffing is a type of employment that involves on-call, contract, and temporary jobs. Flexible staffing is done through two ways; Independent contractors and staffing companies which provide temporary employees (Kallerberg and Reynolds, 2000). It is frequently used to adjust levels of staff to respond to the increasing consumers and technological demands. Flexible staffing has both advantages and disadvantages. One advantage of flexible staffing is its ability to staff vacant areas immediately. In most cases, increasing demands put companies in stressful situations such that they do not get enough time of going through recruitment, hiring as well as training of new workers.Ployhart, Schneider and Schmitt (2006) argue that flexible staffing aids a company to be at par with the competitive nature of the business world. If a company is increasingly expanding then flexible workers are added, but if there is low work with minimum profit returns, retrenching workers can take place without the challenge of demoralizing workers. Removing a permanent employee is not easy compared to terminating a temporary employee’s