What HR managers told us: Benefits for part-timers
August 28, 2008 by Jim GiulianoPosted in: Hiring, In this week's e-newsletter, Incentives, Latest News & Views, Retention and turnover, What HR managers told us, policies
We asked 314 HR managers: “Do part-time employees in your organization gets some sort of benefits package?” Here what they said:
Yes: 46%
No: 38%
Don’t have part-timers: 16%
Offering part-timers some type of benefits package has become popular as some companies try to attract nontraditional workers, such as retirees or some working parents who don’t want fulltime jobs but do want some perks.
Part-timers’ share of the workforce has been growing and is likely to continue growing. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, workers putting in fewer than 35 hours per week accounted for 23.9 % of the workforce in 2007, up from 18.3 percent in 1996. A lot of companies that rely on part-timers, such as Starbucks and UPS, use their benefits packages to attract higher quality workers away from the competition.
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