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Raja Simhan T.E.

Flexi-staffing getting stronger

Chennai , April 14

Adecco Flexione Workforce Solutions Ltd, a subsidiary of Adecco Peopleone, added about 15,000 temporary staff during fiscal ended March 31, 2006 taking the overall strength to 25,000.

The company hopes to have about 60,000 temporary staff by the end of current fiscal, according to Mr Ramesh S. Hande, Director, Adecco Flexione.

The temporary staffing, also called flexi staffing, industry in India is annually growing at 90 per cent, while Adecco Flexione, provider of end-to-end solutions in temporary staffing, is growing at 110 per cent. The company is among the top 10 organised placement agencies, and these players have nearly 1.50-lakh temporary staff on their rolls, he told Business Line.

Temporary staff are employees working for a third party, but figuring on the rolls of a human resource company. Globally, temporary staffing is a $140-billion industry and around 5 per cent of the workforce in any country is in temporary jobs.

In India, there is a potential to create about 1-1.5 crore such jobs in the next five years, said an Adecco Flexione official.

Big users

Telecom and financial services are currently biggest users of temporary staff in India. The retail sector is opening up in a big way, and manufacturing would be another major sector to use temporary staff in the next few months, he said.

According to Mr Hande, Adecco has restructured itself with focus on customer service. Hitherto, the company was focussed on sales and business development. About 25,000 temporary staff are deployed in the company's 600 plus "blue chip" companies, he said.

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