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[[File:Berači borovnica 0613.jpg|thumb|300px|upright|Blueberry pickers in [[Serbia]].]]

'''Temporary work''' or '''temporary employment''' (also called '''gigs''') refers to an employment situation where the working arrangement is limited to a certain period of time based on the needs of the employing organization. Temporary employees are sometimes called "contractual", "seasonal", "interim", "casual staff", "outsourcing", "[[freelance]]"; or the words may be shortened to "temps". In some instances, temporary, highly skilled professionals (particularly in the [[white-collar worker]] fields, such as [[human resources]], [[research and development]], [[engineering]], and [[accounting]]) refer to themselves as [[consultants]]. Increasingly, executive-level positions (e.g. CEO, CIO, CFO, CMO, CSO) are also filled with [[Interim executive|Interim Executives]] or [[Fractional Executive|Fractional Executives]].{{cn|date=July 2020}}

Temporary work is different from [[secondment]], which is the assignment of a member of one organisation to another organisation for a temporary period, and where the employee typically retains their salary and other employment rights from their primary organisation but they work closely within the other organisation to provide training and the sharing of experience.

Temporary workers may work [[Full-time job|full-time]] or [[Part-time job|part-time]] depending on the individual situation. In some instances, temporary workers receive [[Employee benefit|benefits]] (such as [[health insurance]]), but usually benefits are only given to [[permanent employment|permanent employees]] as a [[cost-cutting]] measure by the employer to save money. Not all temporary employees find jobs through a temporary [[employment agency]]. With the rise of the Internet and '''gig economy''' (a labor market characterized by the prevalence of short-term contracts or freelance work as opposed to permanent jobs), many workers are now finding short-term jobs through [[freelance marketplace]]s: a situation that brings into being a global market for work.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Graham|first1=Mark|last2=Hjorth|first2=Isis|last3=Lehdonvirta|first3=Vili|date=16 March 2017|title=Digital labour and development: impacts of global digital labour platforms and the gig economy on worker livelihoods|journal=Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research|volume=23|issue=2|pages=135–162|language=en|doi=10.1177/1024258916687250|pmid=28781494|pmc=5518998}}</ref><ref name=":5" />

A '''temporary work [[employment agency|agency]]''', '''temp agency''' or '''temporary staffing firm''' finds and retains workers. Other companies, in need of short-term workers, contract with the temporary work agency to send '''temporary workers''', or '''temps''', on assignments to work at the other companies. Temporary employees are also used in work that has a cyclical nature, requiring frequent adjustments to staffing levels.

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