The practice of hiring workers under body leasing contracts is widespread and, in most cases, highly economically viable. However, to maximize the benefits of this approach and avoid mistakes and disappointments, it is crucial to keep some nuances in mind.

Undoubted advantages and tangible benefits

It would not be an exaggeration to say that most company executives and business owners dream of such an organization of work when only highly paid managers and unique specialists are on the staff. As for the rest of the employees, they are involved as needed for specific tasks. At the same time, the company maximizes profits and minimizes costs. It is this scheme that body leasing and team leasing allows to implement.

If you analyze the workflow in many companies, it turns out that the load is distributed among employees exceptionally unevenly. There are periods of peak activity, which are replaced by almost complete calm. The vacation period is an endless nightmare for the HR manager. In addition, many offices often develop a vicious corporate culture of focusing not on results but on the process, which suppresses those employees who show the best results, all other things being equal. After all, in this way, they show the management the insufficient effectiveness of their colleagues.

The protracted Covid epidemic and the transition to remote work have made these corporate vices particularly visible and prompted SEOs to rethink the established forms of hiring and paying employees fundamentally.

In a number of cases, it is much more expedient to hire an employee with a particular qualification or a team of such specialists to perform specific tasks. This approach allows you to pay only for the result, without assuming the burden of obligations to provide social guarantees and pay for downtime.

It is precisely these opportunities that leasing agencies provide, offering employees with the necessary qualifications or entire teams of experts. The body leasing and team leasing system provide a scheme in which you pay the employee you need only during the time when he is busy doing a specific job. Moreover, if he is temporarily unable to work for some reason (for example, illness), the leasing agency provides you with an appropriate replacement. You pay for the work of such attracted employees as for the agency’s service. At the same time, you are relieved of the need to load the personnel department with the registration of new employees, and your accouters don’t need to pay them a salary.

Of course, this is a very convenient form of labor organization and registration of labor relations. However, it is only effective if you have carefully worked out the contract with the leasing agency. We will talk about this further.

A properly drafted contract is a guarantee of your success

The contract that you sign with the leasing agency that provides you with employees is a factor that determines the final result of your cooperation. Whether you get a job well done and money saved or ruined nerves, wasted time, and wasted money depends on how accurately you consider and describe the slightest, even the most apparent nuances.

Remember: the important rule: unwritten – does not exist.

Let’s figure out what this means.

• When choosing a leasing agency, pay attention to their experience. Everything should be essential for you: how long this company has been providing leasing services in general and how their portfolio looks in the area that interests you. Read customer reviews. Moreover, do not limit yourself to only those published on the company’s official website. Now on the Internet, especially taking into account social networks, it is elementary to find any information. Just formulate a request, and try to communicate with real people who have used the services of this agency.
• If you hire an individual expert to augment your existing team, only you, as the customer, can know precisely what qualifications this specialist should have. Imagine such a situation. For example, you are developing a new application for your company. When signing a contract with a leasing agency, you get off with a common phrase like: “A programmer with experience in Android software development with knowledge of the Java language.” In this case, don’t be surprised if you get a programmer who, let’s say, knows node.js but has never worked with Grails or Dropwizard, which your team is developing. At the same time, the terms of the contract will be formally observed because both node.js and Grails, and Dropwizard are Java frameworks. And as a result, you will get a person who, in fact, will study new tools for your money.
• It is common practice for leasing agencies to provide an equivalent replacement if an employee they send cannot perform their duties for some reason. It is a great practice to ensure that you only pay for results and not for other people’s problems. However, the words “adequate,” “equivalent,” “corresponding,” and the like have too many meanings, which allow each of the parties to understand them in their own way. Therefore, do not be stopped by thoughts like: “Well, this is already clear to everyone, especially since above we have already indicated the necessary requirements for the employee.” In the paragraph on replacement, do not be too lazy to list them again or make an unambiguous reference to the existing list of qualifications.
• If the job in which you plan to use a body leased specialist requires that he has any special clearances or permissions, please specify this separately. For example, suppose you need not just an electrical engineer but someone who will be entrusted with installing high-voltage equipment. In that case, he must have a special certificate that allows you to allow him to work without violating strict safety requirements.
• Study in detail the clause on the parties’ obligations concerning the employee. You must clearly understand who is responsible, for example, in the event of an accident at work, who conducts safety briefings and checks on certificates and authorizations. God grants that you do not have to refer to this contract section in the future; however, such important things must be clearly agreed upon in advance.
• Equally important is the paragraph describing your responsibilities to the employee you hire. Uncertainty in this matter may lead to the fact that in the event of claims from your side, the agency may accuse you of not providing the necessary conditions to their specialist.
• Find out which of the agency’s employees is involved in the organizational support of your body leasing or team leasing contract. If necessary, a specific person must answer you. Otherwise, you run the risk of encountering an answering machine that prompts you to endlessly press the menu buttons to go to the next item instead of finding an urgent solution to your problems.

Summing up

Body and team leasing can solve many personnel-related problems and take your company to a whole new level. Just do not forget that a well-designed contract with a leasing agency is the key to your success and guarantees a successful investment of your money in qualified specialists.