Employee leasing is an arrangement between a business and a staffing firm, who supplies workers on a project-specific or temporary basis. These employees work for the client business, but the leasing agency pays their salaries and handles all of the HR administration associated with their employment.
Leased employees, often known as contract workers or temps, fill temporarily vacant company positions. These temporary employees are often hired for particular projects or for a short time until a task is completed.
Drawbacks of employee leasing Less control: One of the greatest risks of employee leasing is that you're delegating an important part of your business to an outside company that doesn't know your business as well as you do. You lose control of your processes, systems and benefits.
California law has stipulated the requirements for classifying an employee as a temporary agency employee. These requirements include the right of the agency to assign and reassign a worker, but the workers have the right to refuse an assignment and remain on the agency's hiring list.
Examples of work provided by Employee Leasing Companies are Payroll Services, Insurance, Tax Services, and various Personnel Services.
While leased employees are legally employed by a PEO, they work under the day-to-day management and supervision of the leasing business — much like any other employee.
PEOs commonly become the employers and “lease back” the company's employees on a long-term basis. PEOs that “lease” employees to customers may then be able to procure things such as group benefits and workers' compensation coverage at reduced rates, due to their larger numbers of employees.
Outsourcing means you hire another company do the work for you instead of having your own employees do it — like writing custom software for you or providing the platform and managing the system. Leasing means you lease existing software from another company but your own staff uses and manages it.
 
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                    