"Temps" as the Old and New Workers

神奈川県茅ヶ崎市 With the increasing pressure of competition on more open and the ever-increasing pace of technological progress, the phenomenon of corporate downsizing and outsourcing bring the apparent growth of the number of "contingent", "atypical", "irregular" work arrangement and the unemployment in the almost all advanced industrial countries. In this article, I discuss with the Temps (workers who are paid by temporary help agencies), one of these work arrangement, compared with these workers in the United State. The principal feature of this form of employment is its triangular employment relationship. The temporary help firms place these workers for legal purposes on their own payroll, billing client firms in an amount covering wages, overhead and profit, while assigning workers to their client firms. There are three different organizational stages that govern how a firm uses these workers, that is, traditional personnel model, crisis-driven model and strategic staffing model. Temps have historically been brought in to cover for regular workers, and now some firms become more strategic in their planning and use of temps. This article explores the preferences of these workers, as well as their reasons for being in that type of employment relationship, using data from the Tokyo-to survey on the temps