OPTION 1: As a traditional employer, you put people to work for your company because you need them now. But then: You’re responsible to them, one way or another, as the company evolves. The cost of everything that goes into maintaining their traditional employee status is high, even spread out over multiple employees. The commitment…
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Heinz and Boeing on the Employer Pushcar
Heinz is announcing layoffs, plant closings, and price increases in a weak economy with rising ingredient costs. One could argue that the cost of employing people is not really the drain they say it is – not anymore. It’s not employment cost, it’s employer cost . There are lots of alternative ways to put people…
Top Reasons to be with FAS
You’ve seen those top 10, top 20, top 100 lists, and we all know the numbers are arbitrary. So in this case, we’ll just jot down some key benefits, and let you add more in the forums. For Companies Looking to Hire Hire contractors directly, but with corp to corp contracts. We handle admin, they…
What About Job Security?
So let’s say I’m a current or former employee (or perhaps current or former contractor) about ready to pull the trigger on becoming a Free Agent… I’m not worried about health insurance or 401K, because I get that with FAS, since all Free Agents get FAS employee status. I’m not worried about switching benefits all…
Staffing Agencies Got Your Soul? Get it back!
If we were a staffing agency, we’d probably do the usual things: hide what we’re billing the client, pay you a fraction of that, deprive you of benefits, and treat you as an interchangeable commodity. Very few people dream of spending the rest of their lives working in that kind of environment. But the culture…