Discussion Topic #5

Concept and Brief Description:

Outsourcing and Temporary Workers
It is important to a company to hire temporary workers when there is a jump in demand and they know that it won’t last. They hire the temporary worker knowing that they will not keep them for long. If they are a good worker that will benefit the company in the long run, they will put him on their permanent workers list and pay him the normal wage. Outsourcing is a great way to cut costs and improve the overall quality of a company. Outsourcing lets a company concentrate on what they need to get done and hire out the other things that they don’t have the resources for. Most often it is cheaper than what the original company can do it for.

Emotional Hook:

What if your company was in a crunch and they were unable to hire full-time employees because of costs or time restraints, what would be the best option for the benefit of the company? Outsourcing is a way to get things done fast and at a cheaper cost to the company. Temporary workers let you have more human labor at a cheaper cost.

Key Points to Elicit in Discussion:

Outsourcing overseas cuts cost dramatically because the cost of human labor is much less. This problem takes away US jobs and puts those jobs in foreign hands. Especially in the manufacturing companies that develop physical products.

Temporary workers are not paid the full-time employee wages or benefits because they are not going to be there for long. Temporary workers can bring in new knowledge that they have been trained in with other companies, therefore you bet the benefits of their past knowledge. They also have different outlooks ore experiences that maybe full-time employees don’t have.

Facilitative Questions:

What if your job got outsourced and you were fired from your job? If your company hired a group of temporary workers looking to fill your position in the near future, how would you treat them?