What is the Contingent Workforce?

Have you heard the term Contingent Workforce but are not quite sure what it means? Here is a definition:

Contingent Workforce -- The group of consultants, contractors, temps, and other project based workers that a company employs. Usually these contractors are employed through staffing firms, project-based consulting companies, or through outsourcing.

Get a crash course on the Contingent Workforce by reading the information on the following webpages:

http://www.galtglobalreview.com/careers/contingent_workforce.html

http://www.humancapitalinstitute.org/hci/tracks_contingent_workforce_management

http://www.bsr.org/CSRResources/IssueBriefDetail.cfm?DocumentID=48981

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingent_Workforce

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingent_Workforce_Outsourcing

http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=437082&seqNum=8

http://physorg.tradepub.com/c/pubRD.mpl?sr=ct&_t=ct:Hr&pc=cws

http://www.computerworld.com/careertopics/careers/recruiting/story/0,10801,78709,00.html

http://s-ox.com/news/detail.cfm?articleID=1284

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