Hyderabad: Till recently, temporary staffing, or temping, was treated with scepticism by the labour market in India. People entering the labour market looked for "permanent" jobs, preferably in the government. But with the substantial growth in some sectors of the economy, like banking financial services and insurance, or BFSI, telecommunications, and the ITeS and BPO, temping as a concept appears to be finding traction.
Says Soumen Basu, executive chairman of the New Delhi-based Manpower Services India, a recruitment firm, "The temping labour market is getting organised. It is estimated that currently there are over one lakh people employed as temps in various industries in India. The trend is that this number will increase to between 250,000-300,000 in the next three years."
According to Ashok Reddy, managing director of the Bangalore-based Teamlease Staffing Solutions, India's largest temping company with over 35,000 people on its rolls, "Temping is slowly getting accepted in the labour market because people, especially in the financial services, telecommunications, and retail are willing to take up temporary assignments."
In its Employment Outlook Survey for the first quarter of 2006, Manpower Services India, a subsidiary of the NYSE-listed Manpower Inc., said that the hiring intentions by employers in India "will be very strong, with an overall Net Employment Outlook of 27". "Temping does not mean that the employee will not get any benefits. In fact, while he or she is on our rolls, but is working with our client, the employee gets all the benefits and training accruing to a permanent employee," says Mr Reddy. "We are reaching a point where the temp staff are getting paid on par, if not more, than a company's permanent employees," says Mr Basu.
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