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...Temp work is no longer just about the assembly line or order entry. More and more highly skilled professionals--Wingfield has an M.B.A. and 23 years of experience--are turning to temp agencies while they struggle with a tough labor market. These accomplished workers--lawyers, accountants, engineers, biochemists--make up the fastest-growing segment of the temporary work force and account for as much as a third of the business of large temp firms. That's helped lift temp agencies, which tend to do well in a recovering economy, as companies use them to dip a toe into the hiring...
...temp trend may be here to stay. The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that the staffing industry will add 1.8 million new jobs between 2002 and 2012, a 54% increase, with professional jobs growing 68%. Along with outsourcing and productivity-improving software, the rise in temporary hiring is one of the big structural shifts redefining the job market, according to a paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. By relying more on temps and contract workers in good times and bad, the report says, "all else equal, this approach yields a smaller permanent work force, more temporary...
Fluent in Russian and trained as a doctor's assistant, George Borayev, 23, of Asheville, N.C., was initially thrilled with his temp job as a real-life "interpreter of maladies" for immigrants seeking medical help from the county health department. "I was excited to get this job," Borayev says. "It uses my language, and it's in the same field as my degree." He worked happily as a contract employee for almost two years until this spring, when a tax bill close to $2,000 and a $1,000 emergency root canal pushed the drawbacks of perma-temping right...
...this army of high-skilled temps gathers strength, there are costs to the companies that tap their talent. Jeff Wittman, 41, of Indianapolis, Ind., is about to start his third auditing assignment in six months. "I'm having fun," he says, but he misses the relationships that can be built over time by staying with one company. That sense of detachment can run deep. "When I first went into nursing, employers felt responsibility for their employees," says Chris Springer, 41, a temp in Omaha. "But you don't see that anymore in the U.S. So now I say, 'Show...
...TEMP NATION Skilled workers join the ranks...