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Old 05-04-2019, 03:49 AM
 
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About 4% of metro Atlanta’s workforce has a temporary job through a staffing agency. That’s twice the national average. Fulton and Cobb rank in the top 10 among U.S. counties, according to government data crunched by Emsi, a labor market analytics firm.

FULL STORY: https://www.ajc.com/business/employm...9RET50bumeUMK/

SOURCE: AJC
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Old 05-04-2019, 05:14 AM
 
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The logistics industry is notorious for using a large temp labor force, since the work is low skilled. Given Atlanta is a logistics hub, that's not surprising.

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Old 05-04-2019, 07:21 AM
 
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I will probably try to seek employment with one. Called to ask which company was providing the work/hours and saw that it was confidential. The pay wasn't bad and so I wonder which company and if they are saving them money mostly by eliminating benefits they pay their employees.
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Old 05-04-2019, 07:59 AM
 
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if they are saving them money mostly by eliminating benefits they pay their employees.
Probably. I know my dad was worried about that for quite some time at his job. Even as an engineer. He probably could have even kept his "job" but he would have become an outside contractor. Fortunately that never happened. He would have lost all of his benefits (which at his company are great).
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Old 05-04-2019, 08:34 AM
 
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I will probably try to seek employment with one. Called to ask which company was providing the work/hours and saw that it was confidential. The pay wasn't bad and so I wonder which company and if they are saving them money mostly by eliminating benefits they pay their employees.
It's not just the elimination of benefits.

The real cost savings is from not having to pay UI benefits, a severance package and having a flexible work force that you can get rid of with just a simple phone call.
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Old 05-04-2019, 08:50 AM
 
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It used to be a foot in the door, where if companies liked temps, they hired them full-time away from the temp agency. Is that still the case?

It used to be only really low-skilled jobs were temps. Nowadays, it seems more and more companies are using it as a way to get more highly skilled help.
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Old 05-04-2019, 09:07 AM
 
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It used to be a foot in the door, where if companies liked temps, they hired them full-time away from the temp agency. Is that still the case?

It used to be only really low-skilled jobs were temps. Nowadays, it seems more and more companies are using it as a way to get more highly skilled help.
It still happens, but not as much.

What you described has become the new normal post-recession.
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Old 05-04-2019, 10:52 AM
 
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About 4% of metro Atlanta’s workforce has a temporary job through a staffing agency. That’s twice the national average. Fulton and Cobb rank in the top 10 among U.S. counties, according to government data crunched by Emsi, a labor market analytics firm.

FULL STORY: https://www.ajc.com/business/employm...9RET50bumeUMK/

SOURCE: AJC
This isn’t surprising to me. I thought that temp agencies were a popular Southern trend. Kind of like unions up North. Since folks in GA can get fired for pretty much anything sometimes it’s cheaper and better to never fully hire them to begin with.
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Old 05-04-2019, 11:51 AM
 
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Atlanta does seem like “Temp City” at times.
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Old 05-04-2019, 12:03 PM
 
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This isn’t surprising to me. I thought that temp agencies were a popular Southern trend. Kind of like unions up North. Since folks in GA can get fired for pretty much anything sometimes it’s cheaper and better to never fully hire them to begin with.

I was going to reply to all these posts later but this one made me laugh. Haha it's funny and disturbing at the same time. I honestly thought what was happening in Atlanta mirrored what was going all over the country, but the article said that Atlanta has double the average. I would like to see the percentages for other major cities in the South to see how unique to Atlanta this is. Is the much higher percentage regional or is Atlanta just special?
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