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In contrast to the bigger employment placement companies, temporary help companies typically employ many more workers. Temporary staff are employed and paid by the temporary help services bussines but are contracted out to a client for either a prearranged fee or an agreed hourly wage.

Some companies choose to use temporary staff full time on an ongoing basis, rather than employ permanent staff, who typically would receive bigger salaries and benefits. As a result, the overwhelming majority of workers in the temporary help services segment of the employment services industry are temporary employers.



Experts employer organizations specialize in performing a worldwide range of human resource and personnel management duties for their client businesses, including payroll processing, recruiting, and labor relationships. Employee leasing establishments, which are a type of professional employer organization, typically acquire and unlease back some or all of the employees of their clients and serve as the employer of the leased employees for payroll and related purposes.

The average annual work week in the employment services industry was about 35 hours in 2003, compared with the average of 39 hours across all industries.

Most full-time temporary workers put in 36 to 39 hours a week and 28 day per mounth, while some work longer hours. Permanent employees in employment companies usually work a standard 45-hour week.