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IS TEMPING SUITED TO WORKING FROM HOME?

There are some people who are still unsure about their career path, and want to learn as much as they can, whilst also getting paid for what they do. Thus, the term ‘temping’ is created wherein people take temporary jobs, contract jobs or seasonal jobs. In this type of job, a person works for a specified period of time, based on the needs of the employer. Like the demand of tourists during Summer where a company would look for additional teams or during the Holiday season where shopping malls would look for additional employees to accommodate customers. 

Now, if we were to place temping in a “work from home” situation the question could be: Is it advisable? Remember, temporary jobs only guarantee you employment (a paycheck) for a certain amount of time. Temping could be one of your choices if you opt to work from home. Such work from home jobs include customer service and call center representatives, data encoders, researchers, data processing and writing. So to answer our question, yes. Temporary Work is suitable for the “work from home” set-up because there are agencies that hire temp workers; Moreover, gig work is very fast paced and dynamic with job opportunities coming and going literally every day.

When you work for a temp agency you are assigned various kinds of work at different companies for varying lengths of time (a few hours or a few days or a couple of weeks or as needed) which is easier for any freelancer so they can accommodate other projects and manage their schedule to complete tasks that do not require transportation. In addition to that, exposure to other people is another benefit earned as a temp worker, temp workers need to be skilled in networking and connecting. A freelancer has the ability to make contacts because they represent an agency that has more contacts then they would be able to get on their own even while at home. 

Mark Trowbridge

Mark Trowbridge

Founder & CEO: conXhub - Tech Innovator - Mentor - Speaker - Proud Father!