About ZIPFORCE
- Contingency – A New Value Proposition
- The Accent is on Local
- Build Profitable Working Relationships
- A Question of Benefits
- Economies of a Contingent Workforce
Contingency – A New Value Proposition
A contingent workforce is comprised of professional workers and contractors engaged in flexible, temporary or limited engagement arrangements with employers. Such arrangements are fast becoming a preferred work model for the 21st century. In fact, labor forecasts predict that contingent workers will make up more than half of the workforce within a year or two. This benefits both employers and professional candidates. In today’s challenging economy, recovery will not succeed by recalling all of the full-time jobs lost in the last couple of years.
Employers need to be more cautious and will rebuild incrementally. That means that as increases in productivity are required, the workforce will need to grow gradually and in much more flexible arrangements than in the past. At the same time, a vast number of available professionals are looking at new ways to remain active and productive while preserving a desired level of income.
The Accent is on Local
ZIPFORCE represents a new kind of community defined by local employers and local professional candidates. ZIPFORCE brokers local opportunities and local resources allowing neighbors to partner with neighbors. Local resources are convenient, available, and they know and understand the area. Local professional candidates can hit the ground running, helping local employers to increase productivity in manageable increments, to undertake projects for a specific period to deliver specific work products or outcomes.
Build Profitable Working Relationships
ZIPFORCE provides a much lower risk for both employers and professional candidates. Employers can benefit from deep experience and invaluable skills while building essential relationships for similar engagements in the future. Professional candidates now have the opportunity to obtain several interesting, simultaneous assignments leveraging any of their many skills and experiences.
Join Zipforce by registering as an Employer or a Professional Associate. You then have new and effective tools to express your opportunities, assets and requirements. ZIPFORCE will help you to find local arrangements in which you can engage immediately.
Remember, a contingent workforce is flexible, available, and ready to deliver immediately.
A local partnership helps to increase productivity to meet the unique challenges of these uncertain times.
ZIPFORCE can help put experienced professional candidates back to work whenever the need arises.
Contingent workers can also be obtained at a moment’s notice without the long recruitment process required to hire a regular employee. If a regular employee departs on FMLA leave, for example, a temporary worker can start the next day and perform those duties for the duration of the leave. If a department lacks the critical resources to handle a short-term project, a contingent professional may be the best way to get the project completed.
A Question of Benefits
While many contingent professionals do not currently receive benefits, this practice is beginning to change. Employers identifying key professionals might wish to retain critical skills and are starting to offer limited or selected benefits for additional incentives.
Economies of a Contingent Workforce
Typically, Employers only pay for the hours the contingent professional works and do not normally have to worry about paying for sick days, vacation days, health benefits, payroll taxes or workers compensation and other insurance. Hiring a contingent professional does not require the commitment or investment of a permanent employee and it gives an organization the opportunity to assess skills and performance in the work environment before offering a full-time position at some point.
