How Temporary Staffing Can Help With Seasonal Efficiency

Dealing with fluctuating demand is a logistical challenge for any business, even when you know it’s coming. When a new season brings short-term production increases or limited-time campaigns, you need to figure out how your workforce will handle it. In many cases, that means bringing in temporary staff.

Working with a staffing agency is a great way to keep your operations running during peak seasons — without overspending on overtime or hiring additional long-term staff you won’t need in a few months. Here are a few ways temporary staffing can help your business maintain its edge.

1. Meeting Short-Term Demands Your Regular Staff Can’t Handle

Seasonal demands might be temporary, but that doesn’t make them any less intense for your workforce. Your staff likely doesn’t have a lot of slack time the rest of the year, and they can’t suddenly take on a much larger workload without help.

Temporary staff can meet those short-term needs. They can fill in the workforce gap so your business can complete its two-month holiday fulfillment push or new product launch. A staffing agency can help you find temps with the right skills to meet your business needs.

2. Reducing Overtime For Your Regular Staff

Overtime is a quick fix when there’s too much work for your employees to do during a regular workweek. It’s not a good solution for frequent or full-season needs, though.

Too much overtime can lead to burnout, decreased productivity, and even resentment, especially for salaried employees who aren’t paid for their extra time. Hourly workers may be happy for a chance to make more money, depending on their obligations outside of work, but they can experience burnout too, and you will likely need to pay them time-and-a-half.

Temporary staffing allows you to avoid resorting to overtime. Instead of spending on overtime and dealing with the long-term productivity losses and turnover that result from employee burnout, you can bring on additional help when it’s needed and keep performance high throughout the year.

3. Minimizing Hiring Expenses

Hiring new long-term employees takes a lot more time and money than hiring temporary staff. When you’re looking at a long-term arrangement, both you and the potential employee are going to need plenty of time to make sure you’re a good fit for each other and deal with the related paperwork.

A temporary staffing agency can hire a lot faster and for a lot less money. Since they’re hiring all the time, they’ve already cultivated a pool of pre-vetted talent to pull from, and they can complete the hiring process a lot faster than your business. And since there’s no long-term commitment involved, you likely don’t need to put temps through your full interviewing and onboarding process.

4. Limiting Benefit Costs

Hiring a full-time employee typically means paying for a full package of benefits, including health insurance, paid time off, and retirement contributions. Those costs can add up quickly.

With temporary staffing, most of the responsibilities for benefits fall on the staffing agency, not your business. Your internal team won’t need to spend time managing benefits for the employees, and you might end up spending less overall.

5. Freeing Up Internal Resources 

Your internal team’s company knowledge, familiarity with your processes, and personal expertise are more valuable than ever during seasonal peaks. You don’t want these employees bogged down with high-volume routine tasks like customer service or order processing. 

A staffing agency can help you find temps who are well-equipped to handle your business’s ordinary, repetitive tasks during seasonal peaks. That way, your existing employees can concentrate on the more impactful work that drives big wins during the season.

Need Qualified Candidates For Seasonal Roles?

LG Resources is a staffing agency that has placed over 20,000 employees with over 2,000 business partners in the past decade. We love helping businesses meet their strategic staffing needs and save money at the same time. Clients tell us they love how our screening and training processes give them excellent candidates.

We specialize in warehouse and light industrial staffing as well as HR professional roles, but we have experience with a wide variety of positions. Request an employee from us today to help your business run efficiently during your peak season.