{"id":2235,"date":"2010-01-20T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/01\/loan-out-your-employees\/"},"modified":"2010-01-20T13:32:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T19:32:25","slug":"loan-out-your-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/01\/loan-out-your-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Loan Out Your Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now this is something I have not seen yet \u2013 loaning out your employees during slow periods.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/news\/articles\/2010\/01\/lending-staff-versus-layoffs.html?utm_source=feedburner\" target=\"_blank\">Inc.com provides the article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How it works: On the StaffShare website the &#8220;seller&#8221; company lists the employee&#8217;s skills, daily rate, and availability. The cost is \u00a350 (roughly $81.70) a year per candidate. The &#8220;buyer&#8221; company searches the database, uses the website&#8217;s message system to vet candidates and iron out details with the seller, and then a contract is sent electronically.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The background behind the idea:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The companies had these redeployment pools of 1,000 people who needed to find other work within the company,&#8221; Flaxton says. &#8220;So we thought, &#8216;What if there was a service where they could find it at another company?'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Conceptually, I think it is a tremendous idea.\u00a0 Logistically, I\u2019m not sure how this approach would work for retention.\u00a0 Still, I believe there will be major transformations once we finally come out of this severe recession.\u00a0 Employees moving to a contract agreement seems to be a natural progression.<\/p>\n<p>The movement of health insurance payments from the employer to the employee (inevitable based on rising costs) will remove one of the incentives of traditional employment agreements.\u00a0 A contractual (1099) agreement could become the more standard arrangement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now this is something I have not seen yet \u2013 loaning out your employees during slow periods.\u00a0 Inc.com provides the article: How it works: On the StaffShare website the &#8220;seller&#8221; company lists the employee&#8217;s skills, daily rate, and availability. The cost is \u00a350 (roughly $81.70) a year per candidate. The &#8220;buyer&#8221; company searches the database, uses the website&#8217;s message system to vet candidates and iron out details with the seller, and then a contract is sent electronically. The background behind the idea: &#8220;The companies had these redeployment pools of 1,000 people who needed to find other work within the company,&#8221; Flaxton says. &#8220;So we thought, &#8216;What if there was a&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/01\/loan-out-your-employees\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,23,11,5],"tags":[1495,1496,1494,227,50,1766],"class_list":["post-2235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compensation","category-retention","category-team-management","category-trends","tag-1495","tag-contract-employee","tag-employee-loan","tag-employment-trend","tag-hiring-trend","tag-retention"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-A3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2062,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/07\/hard-numbers-on-telecommuting\/","url_meta":{"origin":2235,"position":0},"title":"Hard Numbers On Telecommuting","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"July 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The Herman Trend Alert newsletter (sorry, no link) provides some interesting statistics from a Cisco survey: Now the international technology giant Cisco Systems has just released a study of its own organization demonstrating these benefits and more. 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