Whether you are an e-commerce store dealing with extra traffic in the holiday season or are a travel agency ambushed by travel bookings in the tourist season, you might want to augment your permanent workforce with some seasonal hires.
When it comes to seasonal employees, companies and organizations are not generous enough. These seasonal employees do not qualify for health benefits. The only benefit they might be getting is discounts from the company.
However, with more and more need for a top-notch workforce, converting seasonal hires into full-time employees can be an enterprise’s best option. In fact, there has been a recent trend towards giving seasonal employees full-time jobs.
Understanding the Role that E-Commerce Is Playing
It is very important to understand how the e-commerce landscape is completely transforming the seasonal job market. Let’s take the example of Amazon. The e-commerce giant was looking to hire a whopping 120,000 US workers for the holiday season at the end of 2017. This meant that carriers like UPS and FedEx were delivering more and more packages. In fact, the US Postal Service started delivering packages on Sundays in some cities of the country.
How You Can Use Employee Benefits to Attract Temporary Hires
If you are also looking to lure your temporary employees to work full-time for you, you need to work on employees’ benefits package for these temporary hires.
As mentioned above, you might be offering them a discount, say 30 percent or even 50 percent, on your offerings.
While they might be entitled to get workers’ compensation benefits, you might offer them fringe benefits, like paid leaves.
Also, looking at a seasonal employee’s work, you might decide that they can be a good fit. If that’s the case, tell them that you would be interested in hiring them full-time. It would be a great idea to give them a figure and the extra benefits that they will be getting as permanent employees.
Sometimes, a seasonal employee might not be willing to work for you full-time, a solid employment benefits package, including benefits for the family, might make them reconsider their decision.
Planning Ahead
Before the holiday season, you might want to have a rigorous and well thought out plan for the temporary hire. In particular, keep your benefits package attractive for them.
Towards the end, you might also carry out an anonymous survey asking them about the benefits they might have wanted as temporary employees. This can give great insights for the future.
With a team of savvy employee benefits consultants, we at JS Benefits Group can help your company create employee wellness programs in Pennsylvania. We partner with you and help you attract skilled workforce.
