http://gigaom.com/2012/06/20/how-to-make-contingent-workers-feel-like-family/ Wed, 22 May 2013 21:24:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2012/06/20/how-to-make-contingent-workers-feel-like-family/#comment-857257 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:21:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=534637#comment-857257 Thanks for the reference, Jessica, and great points below. Much appreciated!

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/06/20/how-to-make-contingent-workers-feel-like-family/#comment-854972 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:13:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=534637#comment-854972 Jill voices my concern nicely. There are some definite legal and liability risks of treating contingent workers just like employees. This is one of the reasons while an effective contingent workforce management partner can be so important to companies who use a contract/temporary resources.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/06/20/how-to-make-contingent-workers-feel-like-family/#comment-854875 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:55:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=534637#comment-854875 Nice article, but you have to be careful about treating temporary workers like employees. As well as risk of being a co-employer with a staffing agency if there is one, there is also a risk that your freelancers could take you to court for non-payment of benefits (i.e. well, they treated me like an employee and I worked for them for 18months, but I never got sick pay, overtime or PTO). Happens all the time…

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