How about creating a temp firm/staffing agency branded for ethical treatment, real benefits, focus on keeping people in longer-term roles. Then if tech companies used them first, even if they cost a bit more, they could feel good. Tax law should perhaps incentivize contractors receiving benefits.
MobileWorks actually does this explicitly, as a crowdsourcing company, rather than a temp agency. We find that it leads to better outcomes for workers and customers alike.
Most of our workforce consists of long-term participants working under real names in exchange for a fair wage guarantee.
It'd be great to see something equivalent emerge in the temping sector.
Ingeresting thanks, I'll check you guys out. Do you provide medical insurance? Anyway I do think you can do a lot more with people working in person with you but then again the worls gets smaller all the time. If folks can do in depth training and quality control in a distributed fashion, more power to em!
