Temporary agency work has entered the public consciousness as a form of employment in manual jobs, but its benefits are now also recognised in white-collar jobs.
In recent years, the IT labour market has seen a significant increase in movement, and companies are finding it difficult to keep up with the demand for internal staff.
In view of this, it is not surprising that more and more companies in the IT sector are outsourcing their recruitment and labour functions to recruitment agencies, and the experience is positive.
Employment-related tasks place a myriad of burdens on a business, especially its management.
The recruitment and selection of employees is a time-consuming process in itself, and there are then a number of one-off and regular administrative burdens associated with their employment.
There are tax returns to be made, employee paperwork to be dealt with, from Cafeteria claims to payroll advances, from sickness administration to other benefits.
These tasks are governed by a ‘forest’ of strict legislation and ever-changing regulations, and it is easy to get lost in the rules.
Complying with the law requires serious and wide-ranging professional skills and up-to-date knowledge.
Pay more attention to the core business of the company!
Few people in Hungary think about it today, but like other similarly over-regulated areas such as accounting, labour can be outsourced to allow a business to devote more resources to its core, revenue-generating activities.
This solution will increase the efficiency of the business and ensure that human resources are managed professionally.
The most effective way to meet changing resource needs over time is through temporary staffing.
If management chooses this route, the entire vertical and the entire scope of resource management will be entrusted to a professional team with specialised skills.
This decision frees up considerable resources for the actual employer, who only has to manage the employees.
This form of employment can also be an excellent solution if the workload in a company is not decreasing, but there is a “hiring freeze” on staff in the organisation due to other circumstances.
An effective solution to IT skills shortages/replacements
Over the last few years, more and more IT vacancies have been advertised by domestic recruitment agencies. But why this turnaround if it has not been the case in the IT sector? The answer to this is multifaceted.
In part, the explosion in demand for wages in the IT market in recent years has put businesses in a difficult position.
IT professionals have had many opportunities to take up better and better job offers, which has led to turnover and made companies’ human resource management unpredictable and unstable.
In addition, pandemics, economic trends and even armed conflicts have an impact on the sales and expansion of a company, which obviously has an impact on the management of human resources.
These are all situations to which an organisation is looking for a response, and it wants to choose the most effective solution.
Domestic businesses, including development centres, the banking and telecoms sectors, are also beginning to recognise the benefits of temporary agency work.
There is a headcount freeze, but somehow IT services have to be kept running, and the developments that have been started have to be continued, as they cannot allow competition to gain ground.
In the selection of temporary staff, the hiring company will assist the hiring organisation in a number of ways, but the hiring organisation always has the final say.
Typically, the integration of agency workers is straightforward, as they work alongside internal staff and enjoy the same rights.
We have also seen many examples where, after a certain period of time and under certain conditions, the temporary worker is taken over by the organisation from the agency, so that it can add a proven and tested professional to its workforce.
Given all this, it is not surprising that temporary agency work is gaining ground in the IT market.
