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The World of Work is Virtually Changing...Again!
National virtual staffing company launches Affiliate program
DATE: 12/10/04
CONTACT: Gayle Buske 888.827.9129
THE WORLD OF WORK IS VIRTUALLY CHANGING…AGAIN!
National Virtual Staffing Company Launches Affiliate Program
/24-7PressRelease.com/ - Team Double-Click, Inc., the leader in virtual staffing, has recently launched its much-anticipated Affiliate program. The program allows its Affiliates to utilize the company’s name, name recognition, marketing materials, and staffing systems to operate their own virtual staffing agency.
Much like a franchise, Team Double-Click, Inc. provides the backend support, training, payroll processing, and billing for its Affiliate offices in exchange for a modest registration fee and low monthly fees. Compared to the start up cost of an actual franchise, the agency’s registration fees are minimal, making it possible for even the average person to afford his or her own virtual staffing agency.
Since 2000, Team Double-Click, Inc., has been providing virtual assistance for small and home-based businesses. Their contractor base consists of 1,500 of the best virtual office contractors the world has to offer. They offer their clients cost-effective solutions to traditional bricks-and-mortar manner of staffing.
WHAT IS A VIRTUAL STAFFING AGENCY?
Virtual staffing is a relatively new concept where by a company provides small and home-based businesses with flexible staffing using virtual workers – professionals who work from their own, fully equipped, home office. The agency screens and interviews workers and matches them appropriately with its clients. The virtual staffing agency is also responsible for scheduling as well as monitoring the workflow between client and virtual worker, solving problems, educating both clients and virtual workers, and cheerleading the same.
SOME IMPORTANT LABOR MARKET FACTS:
· Staffing is a $66 Billion a year industry…and growing at 10% a year according to the National Association of Personnel Services.
· More and more employees want flexibility
· More and more companies need flexibility
· Staffing is the 5th fastest-growing industry according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics
· Also according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, staffing will remain the fastest growing industry through at least 2010
· The Bureau of Labor Statistics says that two of the top three fastest-growing industries (computer/data processing and health services) are major clients of the staffing industry.
· Corporations are getting smaller
· Those downsized from corporate America are starting their own small and home-based businesses
· These small and home-based businesses NEED staffing
· Employment flexibility is becoming increasingly important to the nation's workforce, according to surveys conducted by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and the American Staffing Association
· According to the American Staffing Association, the staffing sector is one of the first to rebound from economic recession.
· Staffing companies will create the most jobs in North America in this decade, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics
· Staffing companies in the US employed on average 2.5 million workers PER DAY in the second quarter of 2004, and analysts predict that staffing employment will increase by 9.3% in 2004, overall, according to Staffing Today.
THE BENEFITS TO THE CLIENT OF A VIRTUAL STAFFING AGENCY
Even those employers who are very enthusiastic about the concept of staffing agencies – and even a large number of employers who use staffing agencies to help them achieve workplace goals – are sometimes unaware of the totality of benefits associated with this business decision:
FLEXIBILITY
Flexibility is a basic business survival NEED in the 21st century. The days of being able to build a staffing plan at the beginning of the fiscal year – or even in some cases, build a 5-year plan – are as extinct as companies that built 5-year staffing. Without question, staffing agencies cater to this business craving for flexibility in a way that no other service sector can provide.
EFFICIENCY
Efficiency in this context simply means: getting the most bang for your effort. The real world of people and bills and suppliers and vendors and business, efficiency means: getting the most ooompf for the least amount of ouch. Because of this, businesses appreciate efficiency in their businesses. They want to maximize profit! They want to delight their customers in a manner that uses the least amount of resources. This is not a bad thing, because it fuels innovation, research, and development.
Staffing agencies tap into this critical business need better than any other sector or solution by combining speed, cost, and convenience.
COST
Cost is, obviously, a major reason why companies choose staffing agencies. Staffing agencies maintain a roster and for some skills (e.g. proficiency with MS-Office) pre-tested candidates. So companies save training dollars right off the top. There are also a host of indirect savings: businesses don’t have to take someone “off the line” to train the new person, since that new person already has the fundamental skills and may just require an orientation of a day or two of job shadowing to get the hang of things.
Businesses nowadays like to break work down into projects, instead of ongoing programs. And those projects can have staff assigned to them such that, when the project is over (or changes), that staff can either be reassigned or non-retained. Businesses with a large employee contingent can’t flexibility navigate the 21st century project-dominated world, but those with staffing certainly can, and obviously do ($66 billion a year and growing!). And with this flexibility comes unprecedented cost savings that (again) only staffing agencies provide.
CONVENIENCE
Instead of placing expensive, and often, outright misinterpreted job ads in newspapers or national online job banks, a staffing agency provides this “leg work” without eating a single unnecessary minute of a businesses’ invaluable time. Really, all a business has to do is fill out a checklist of things that they want (e.g. skills, years of experience, etc.), and the staffing agency does the rest.
Staffing agencies also provide candidate screening, which includes reference checking, skills testing (if applicable), and other useful tools to facilitate the candidate search. It doesn’t get much more convenient than this, and only staffing agencies make this happen for their business clients.
CONTROL
Simply stated, staffing agencies provide businesses with more control in a variety of integrated ways. More control over costs, more control over staffing, more control over project resource allocation. And just as important – if not more – is more control over the unforeseeable. Today’s business world is dominated by change. Domestic policy, politics, and culture combine with International factors to ensure that no two weeks are ever the same. This constant volatility is not negative in itself; in some cases, the change-factor can be overwhelmingly positive, such as when demand for a product or service spikes, or an innovation makes producing a project or service more efficient. Staffing agencies support this expectation of change by giving businesses more control over the uncontrollable. In other words: staffing agencies allow businesses to veer left, curve right, reverse, make 3-point turns, race away from disaster, or floor-it towards a growth opportunity.
Staffing agencies are massive, global forces in the working world, and that the reason they play such a dominating – and enlarging -- role is because of the major benefits that they create for their business clients: benefits that are simply not available by any other sector, or by any other solution.
Staffing agencies are not merely “here to stay”, but they’re growing faster than analysts can analyze. And what’s the natural progression? With technological advances at an all-time high, the world demanding lower vehicle emissions, flexibility a must, virtual staffing is the next step!
Virtual staffing agencies offer advantages that even a bricks-and-mortar staffing agency by definition cannot.
COMPARISON: VIRTUAL STAFFING VS BRICKS-AND-MORTAR STAFFING:
FLEXIBILITY:
Virtual staffing: “Anytime, anywhere, 24/7/365” matching of business need to contractor skill.
Bricks-and-mortar: Open 9-5, Monday through Friday.
Advantage: Virtual staffing
TIME:
Virtual staffing: Can locate local and remote staff in a matter of hours in all time zones. Typically takes at least a day or two to locate local contractors.
Bricks-and-mortar: Typically, no access to remote contractors.
Advantage: Virtual staffing
COST:
Virtual staffing: The cost of locating qualified staff is negligible. Costs are already being paid: Internet access, computer, phone line, fax, etc.
Bricks-and-mortar: An office must be rented, upgraded. Insurance must be bought for the premises, an alarm system, business property tax must be paid, property management fees, and so on. Overhead costs such as heat, electricity, and so on, must also be paid prior to making your first dollar.
Advantage: Virtual staffing
TARGET MARKET
Virtual staffing: Virtual staffing embraces the small and home-based business owner and their growing needs. These “small businesses” are the ones that DRIVE the economy.
Bricks-and-mortar: Many bricks-and-mortar staffing agencies will not work will not even return calls of small business owners, or will treat them like “second class citizens” because they don’t have big $ accounts.
Advantage: Virtual Staffing
SERVICE AREA/MARKETING AREA
Virtual staffing: Virtual staffing agencies break geographical barriers with access to qualified help across the US, and are not limited to a particular city, state, or region of the country. Virtual staffing agencies can also market to businesses across the country.
Bricks-and-mortar: Bricks-and-mortar staffing agencies are limited to recruiting within a local radius of, and limited in the number of businesses they can market to (local businesses).
Advantage: Virtual staffing
DEMAND
Virtual staffing: Virtual staffing is the in demand solutions right now. PLUS: businesses know by definition that the virtual staffer that they work with KNOWS the Internet – which is a skill set that cannot be assumed when recruiting from a bricks-and-mortar agency.
Bricks-and-mortar: Bricks-and-mortar staffing agencies are growing, but facing bureaucratic obstacles. Instead of passing on all cost savings to the business and/or increasing the money that they give to contractors, bricks-and-mortar staffing agencies are obliged to spend an increasing amount of revenue to maintain their operations.
Advantage: Virtual staffing
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
Virtual staffing: Virtual staffing helps encourage both workers and employers to work from home/maximize the time they work at home, thus keeping their vehicles (and consequently emissions!) off the roads.
Bricks-and-mortar: No positive impact/difference.
Advantage: Virtual staffing
EMPLOYER/EMPLOYEE RELATIONSHIP
Virtual staffing: Virtual staffers are contractors. That means that they are NOT employees. There are no payroll costs or processes, benefits, or legal obligations. A virtual staffer is free to follow their career path.
Bricks-and-mortar: Staffers who work with bricks-and-mortar agencies are typically employees. They legally work for the agency, and as such, the agency must pay for payroll processing, benefits, sick days, holiday pay, costs associated with withholding tax, social security tax, unemployment tax, etc.
Advantage: Virtual staffing
Through Team Double-Click, Inc.’s Affiliate program, the average person will now be able to offer businesses and “Virtuals” in any city and state and have the opportunity to benefit from this profound innovation in the 21st century world of work!
Gayle Buske is the co-owner of the virtual staffing agency, Team Double-Click, Inc. The company provides virtual assistance for small and home-based businesses. Visit Team Double Click’s website at http://www.teamdoubleclick.com, email Gayle at gayle@teamdoubleclick.com, or phone 888.827.9129.
Gayle Buske is the co-owner of the virtual staffing agency, Team Double-Click, Inc. The company provides virtual assistance for small and home-based businesses. Visit Team Double Click’s website at http://www.teamdoubleclick.com, email Gayle at gayle@teamdoubleclick.com, or phone 888.827.9129.
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Gayle Buske
Team Double-Click, Inc.
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W10530 Airport Road
Lodi, 53555
USA WI
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