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The costs for hiring are enormous, and the cost for lost revenue are big for hiring agencies. If I want to farm your labor, I need to find you, make sure you a
by hobs 11y ago
The costs for hiring are enormous, and the cost for lost revenue are big for hiring agencies.
If I want to farm your labor, I need to find you, make sure you are going to work long enough at a site for me to make money, and I have to hope that you wont do something that will sour the relationship I have with "my" customer (the business I am renting you to.)
The margins for staffing places are actually pretty small per person, so its not so much unjustifiable as it is dehumanizing.
- KirinDave 11y agoSo why increase your costs using data that has no appreciable correlation with what affects your bottom line? I worked temp out of college in the dot com bust. I lived out of a borrowed car. I was desperate for work and had relevant skills, but many temp agencies wouldn't touch me. It was stupid and dehumanizing, but it was also pretty unjustifiable.
- Bluestrike2 11y agoBecause it shifts perceived responsibility for any failures from the temp agency to the service that performed the background checks.
- KirinDave 11y agoExcept that the BC folks would never accept such responsibility, and the temp agencies require employers to waive the right to claim (limiting the damages to reputation). So maybe that is the logic, but it's specious logic.