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Of all the employed workers in the United States, 12.5 million are part of a temporary workforce. The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics counts 9.2 percent of workers as those who have ---|||________|||---(1) they term "alternative employment arrangements." The government predicts that temporary staffing agencies ---|||________|||---(2) experience growth of 49 percent by 2010. If numbers increase at the rate ---|||________|||--- (3), these companies will add 1.9 million new jobs by 2010. That''s more than any ---|||________|||---(4) industry.
Temporary workers were the first ones to be affected by the recent economic recession, but they are ---|||________|||---(5) to be the first to regain positions as the economy picks up and companies work to rebuild. Employers use temporary workers as a resource because ---|||________|||---(6) offer flexibility and come at a low cost. Many temporaries are categorized as "independent contractors" instead of employees, ---|||________|||---(7) allows the employer to avoid ---|||________|||---(8) certain taxes. Because they are not required to offer benefits to temporary workers, companies can save a great deal of money by hiring temps. Usually, temporary workers can qualify ---|||________|||---(9) benefits if they work for a staffing company for a certain length of time. Most temps, however, do not continue with one company long ---|||________|||---(10) to qualify for them because they regard the position as a step on the ladder to a ---|||________|||---(11) position later.
According to Richard Wahlquist, president of the American Staffing Association, 75 ---|||________|||---(12) of temporary workers hope for transition out of the temporary staffing category ---|||________|||---(13) a period of time. Wahlquist finds that temporary workers spend about 11 weeks on various assignments before their ---|||________|||---(14) out of the temporary workforce. Many use temporary positions to gain experience and skills ---|||________|||---(15) they move on to better jobs. Wahlquist says that the temp workforce as a whole turns ---|||________|||---(16) 400 percent each year.
Tom Dilworth, research director at the Employment Policies Institute, explains ---|||________|||---(17) some workers like having temporary jobs ---|||________|||---(18) it affords them a great deal of elasticity with time and everything. Some temps only have a limited ---|||________|||---(19) of time to work and temp agencies can help coordinate jobs to fit their schedules. Other sometimes-employees use temporary jobs to get an ---|||________|||---(20) to a company from the inside, to get a foot in the door of a certain business or career. ---|||________|||---(21) others take temporary positions in hopes their employers will change them over to permanent positions eventually.
Nearly all the industries in the United States use temporary workers. ---|||________|||---(22) to Tim Costello, coordinator of the North American Alliance for Fair Employment, the growth of temporary labor threatens ---|||________|||---(23) job security of permanent workers who fear replacement, as well as the temps who are more accustomed to turnover. He predicts that there will continue to ---|||________|||---(24) a gradual shift from permanent employees to contingent staffing, and that such a ---|||________|||---(25) in workplace demographics will "lead to lower wages, poorer working conditions, and more instability."
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