Engaging a Flexible Workforce
Our Track Record
Since 1992, Icon Recruitment Limited (formerly Kelly Luxford) has been providing contracting solutions to the NZ ICT industry.
Our database of contract resources is now one of the biggest in the country. We constantly contact our job seeker database to ensure we know their movements and what their requirements are! As a result with a recruitment team focused on quality and expedient delivery, Icon now has the largest number of ICT contractors in work in New Zealand.
The Flexible Workforce Market
Today, more than ever before, companies must continuously search for new and dynamic advantages over their competitors. Business strategies such as improved supply chain management, technical innovation and global branding can help, but more and more analysts agree, that today's most telling competitive advantage is a well trained, effective workforce. An effective workforce can be mobilised into action at short notice, has a tailor-made mix of specialist and generalist staff that can be duplicated, reshaped and redeployed the moment business strategies require.
Essentially, a dedicated flexible workforce compliments your permanent staff when required and it flexes in line with your business peaks and troughs.
A dedicated contract workforce offers:
- Staffing to optimum levels, not maximum levels
- The flexibility to handle variations in line with project demands
- Increased efficiency, productivity and profitability
- Job stability for permanent and contract staff
- The removal of institutionalised overtime and its associated financial, social and productivity costs
- Improved quality in permanent recruitment as evidence suggests that staff from the dedicated contract workforce progress to permanent positions when available
Flexible staffing practices offer organisations the opportunity to simultaneously adjust to market and business cycles and encourage employee skill retention. In a survey conducted by Icon 88% of workers would like their job to be more flexible and 65% believed that employees are forced to work long hours. The results show that employees are seeking improved quality of life and realise that they too can benefit from greater flexibility in the workplace. As the economy slows companies are investigating ways to reduce costs, maximise productivity and retain valuable employees, a dedicated flexible workforce meets these objectives. Through staffing an organisation to meet demand during business fluctuations, an organisation can prosper and provide their staff with job security.
When the pendulum turns and the economy begins to increase a company that has adopted strategies that provide flexibility will be at the forefront of their industry and ready and able to flex their business in line with the market.
Staff to optimum levels, not maximum levels. Retain valuable employees and maximise productivity.
