Now that the summer – and the Olympics – are a thing of the past, IT contractors are being called back to work to pick up on postponed projects.
Firms are picking up where they left off on many of the business activities that ended up being put on the back burner whilst the Olympic Games were in town, with the results being that umbrella service contractors and freelancers are back in demand to finish off those left over projects and neglected workloads, according to the Association of Professional Staffing Companies. APSCo says that remote working and staff holidays were prevalent over the summer whilst the sports competition gripped the nation’s attention, but now things are finally returning to normal.
The upshot of this is that it’s time to get back to business for many firms, and they need skilled and experienced IT interim workers to facilitate this work. Projects need leaders and systems need upgrading, and businesses have turned to temporary workers to fill the gaps in their permanent staff in order to achieve their IT goals.
In fact, there has been a 17 per cent increase in the number of placements available for IT contractors, even as available permanent staff positions have declined by 15 per cent. APSCo says that this is due to the flexibility temporary workers offer businesses, which can keep payroll costs down while still facilitate the completion of important projects, and with the economy still crawling along, any savings businesses can make while still growing their market share remains standard operating procedure.
