Word: temping
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...When the economy begins to slow down, the staffing industry feels it first." But the dearth of baby-bust workers (born between 1965 and '76) may help counter the bad news. Besides, says Ann Kelleher, president of Mature Resources, an Omaha, Neb., staffing company, special factors may insulate older temp workers, especially highly skilled ones. "We see companies really valuing the work that experienced older workers bring to the table," she says, especially their conscientiousness and judgment...
Fleming is a global temp worker, a modern-day nomad who jets off every year or so to a new locale, where he contracts out to companies desperate for engineers savvy in mobile communications. He is earning three to four times the salary he once made as a full-time employee of companies like Ericsson--which is why he was sounding merry on a recent morning, heading out of Seattle on a three-month contract to train engineers for his latest temp boss: Ericsson. "Now I go anywhere anybody pays me to go," he says. "It's a good...
...inevitable that temp work would go international, especially in the telecommunications field, where cell-phone standards vary wildly--and seem to change overnight. Vendors such as Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola and network suppliers such as AT&T and Cingular must be flexible enough to work in developing countries, including China, as well as advanced markets such as Europe, where third-generation (3G) systems will soon combine high-speed voice and data. With telecom engineers in short supply and companies leery of adding full-time staff for short-term projects, contract workers have filled...
...Nortel, testing circuits across Europe. "I would not go back to anything else. It's a lot more freedom and a lot more money," he says. "You can pick and choose what you want to do." The company offers training when necessary to make sure its contractors fit the temp jobs, which can involve everything from designing new cellular transmission stations and selecting sites for transceiver towers to supervising construction and troubleshooting reception problems...
...working lives. Donkin reinforces these assertions by describing how employment and management theory have evolved since the Stone Age. He is especially persuasive about the re-engineering trend that scythed through middle management in the 1980s and '90s, turning shareholder value into the new corporate mantra and "temp" agencies into the largest private employers in the U.S. In Donkin's view, we are now at a stage where there is more work than ever, the work ethic remains deeply embedded in the Western psyche and our identities continue to be framed by who employs us and how we earn...