The power of using flex workers

April 17, 2020

With the introduction of the Balanced Labor Market Act (WAB) on Jan. 1, the use of flexible staff seems to be becoming less popular. Are you indeed more expensive if you employ more flex workers? And which cons or conversely, do flex workers offer advantages over permanent employees?

The Borstlap Committee proposes measures to ensure that flexible work is discouraged by making it more attractive for employers to have permanent (indefinite) employees. In practice, however, just the opposite appears to be the case. The other side of the coin, however, is that millions of employees who are currently in (permanent) employment will, in part, be given less security as a result. In fact, it seems that with the proposals of the Borstlap Committee basically everyone becomes a kind of flex worker. This does not seem to be a good trend. In fact, despite what the Borstlap committee said, the percentage of flex workers deployed in the last three months increased by 8%, compared to 2019. A significant increase. And if it is up to the estimation of Knowledge Center TNO, in the course of 2020, one out of three employees a flex worker.

Benefits of working with flexible workers

The stakes of flex workers has many advantages. We list them for you:

• You can easily outsource recruitment and selection of flex workers. This saves you a lot of time in administrative tasks. You do not need to have all the knowledge in-house. Of working with flexible workers. A back office support has the knowledge of and channels to the labor market in the house.
• Flex workers can be deployed quickly and effectively on the job. No lengthy selection procedures for each position anew. Moreover, does a flex worker not like it, then you are not stuck to years of forced cooperation.
• Because flex workers do many different jobs in various industries, they often have many and sometimes special competencies. They can put these to work for your company.
• You run fewer employer risks. In fact, you can shift them to a back office organization that manages your temporary workers.
• If you eventually, upon proven suitability, want to hire the flex worker on a permanent basis, you can always do so.

Your personnel and financial administration in a back office support

• Simply outsource the entire personnel and financial administration of your flex workers. Let the specialists of back office support from Payoffice B.V. perform this for you. You stay in control, we do the work.
• We pay the temporary worker the hours worked. So they can have their wages on time. That keeps things clear for everyone.
• If you hire an employee through Payoffice, you may we also possibly fill in to remaining hours, at the request of the temporary employee. This allows your flex employee to work at their best.

The above hopefully demonstrates that the use of a flexible employee may still be of interest to your company are, despite the measures when the WAB was introduced.

Quality at an affordable rate

Interested in lodging of your flex workers in a low-cost, high-quality back office employment agency? Contact Payoffice B.V., and we will gladly tell you what the possibilities are without any obligation.

Payoffice B.V.
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