All managers know the cost of low employee morale, but few managers know the best-kept secret to improving employee morale: temporary employees. Using temps can prevent many of the most common causes of employee dissatisfaction, and the good news is, it’s often a budget-neutral strategy.

Less Overtime

As managers, it’s easy to assume that all employees like working overtime. While it’s true that employees often enjoy the cushion of overtime pay, the overtime hours, on the other hand, can quickly lead to burnout, and the resulting morale problems. When you use temps to fill scheduling gaps you’d usually fill with overtime, you give your employees the time they need to recharge before returning to work, while increasing employee productivity and preventing job accidents at the same time.

Fewer Accidents

Speaking of accidents, it’s impossible to understate how lost time due to job injuries affects morale. Job-related injuries are hazardous to all employees’ health, as covering for employees who are out due to injuries results in short staffing and longer shifts. It becomes a morale-busting cycle – overworked employees are, statistically speaking, accidents waiting to happen, so as the employees you have on the job scramble to cover for the employees who are out, the number of accidents increases. Using temps to cut down on extra-long shifts and extended work weeks reduces your organization’s risk for job-related accidents and injuries. Morale will improve, to say nothing of your bottom line.

More Flexibility

Ask employees in almost any industry if there’s one thing they wish they could change about their job, and you’ll hear the same answer: they’d like a little more job flexibility. When you’re working with a bare-bones staff, giving employees more flexibility with their schedules is almost impossible, and morale sinks as employees struggle to balance work with personal responsibilities. Using temps can allow you to give permanent employees more leeway in scheduling time off – without worries about understaffing.

Now that you know how temporary employees can improve working conditions in your organization, it’s time to implement them into your staffing strategy. Let Staffing Partners’ help you create a temporary staffing plan that contributes to your organization’s success – call our expert staffing team today for the best temp and temp-to-hire employees in your industry!