Right-sizing staff for your light industrial business is key to the success of all your key performance indicators (KPIs) and business goals, now and throughout the year ahead. Temporary staffing can help as you manage fluctuating customer demands and seasonal changes with ease and efficiency.
Partnering with a temporary agency streamlines recruitment and gets qualified talent in your door quickly and successfully—as much of the legwork and related employment responsibilities are handled by your staffing firm. Among the roles they can help you fill are production line workers, warehouse associates, shipping and receiving clerks, quality inspectors, and machine and forklift operators.
Benefits of Temporary Staff for Your Light Industrial Business
Managing Changing Demand
As production needs ebb and flow throughout the year, you can seamlessly adjust staffing levels in sync with these changes. Using temporary workers, there is no need to overstaff during slower periods or be understaffed when a busy peak suddenly strikes. This flexibility also applies to absences that arise due to vacations, disability, illness, or family time off.
Gaining Access to Specialized Skills
If a project or new product calls for specialized skills not available within your current workforce, you can relay these requirements to your staffing agency so they can quickly screen candidates in their network for those specific abilities. For instance, you may be in need of certain mechanical skills or IT knowledge. And when that project ends, you have no obligation to keep these specialists on staff.
As an added bonus: In many cases, full-time staff enhance their own skillsets by working with and learning from their temporary team members.
Cutting Costs
When you hire temporary workers, you pay only for the actual hours they work—no more and no less. You don’t have to worry about costly overtime, or benefits, the latter of which are covered by your staffing agency.
Additional savings involved with utilizing temporary staff stem from:
- Shorter time to hire: Your staffing agency can dip into its broad talent pool and identify good candidates to quickly fill even your most unexpected and sudden openings. And they take care of all related paperwork, screening, and related hiring processes. Temp workers are ready to hit the ground running.
- Reduced training time: Because your staffing company tailors temporary hires to your job qualifications and needs and screens candidates thoroughly, minimal onboarding or training time is typically required.
With all these areas handled for you, your company leaders and full-time staffers can focus on their daily core business activities, instead of being pulled away or placed at risk of burnout because there’s simply too much on their plate.
Ready to Get Started?
When it comes to temporary, contract, temp-to-hire, or direct hire roles, let the experienced light industrial recruiters at PrideStaff Fresno help with your staffing solutions. You’ll be better equipped to hit your 2025 targets with the best staff in place. Contact us today to learn more.