a temp agency and a staffing agency. I don't fully understand it but...temp agencies send their people all over to jobs that are supposed to be only for a short amount of time. Staff agencies are contacted by businesses who need someone right away, someone who's already passed certain screenings (like drug tests). An employee at either agency might be hired on permanently at whatever place they wind up working at. At my last workplace, I was one of only two new people (in the 2 years, 2 months and 21 days I was there) hired directly by the company. Everyone else came through a staffing agency. The staffing agency paid them, not my workplace (again, I'm not sure exactly how that worked) and because of that, everyone made $1/hour less than if they'd been hired through the company directly. That never sat right with me...people who'd worked the same amount of time I did, doing the exact same work, but getting less pay because of going through an agency (plus not being eligible for benefits, which our company was pretty good at supplying).
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