The staffing industry constitutes a 6-billion-dollar market in India. At the same time the temp staff sector is growing. But it is the blue-collar workers who constitute the bulk of this force. The more educated workforce is reluctant to go that way due to the felt insecurities. The top bracket, above a salary level of Rs30,000, has not yet moved into temp sector.
On the other hand, very skilled people, are in a sense, temps. They become consultants. They are not interested in getting permanent jobs. For example, there was this instance where a company needed to hire a person with specialized knowledge of a certain type of car batteries. Only about 200 people across the globe who had this specialized knowledge. None of them wanted to take up permanent employment.
Women have entered the workforce and the ratio has changed. In IT the ratio is nearly 51:48. This has also changed mindsets within organizations. Some organizations have policies where staff can leave any day, without any notice period. So, the distinction between temp and permanent has become fuzzy.

These and more insights from the ground in this great episode of TalentWise.

Run time – 36.02 mins.

In Conversation with Pradeep Srivastava