Hello!
Welcome to the inaugural issue of CODE Staffing: produced by the CODE Group, who has been providing value to clients for nearly 30 years through CODE Consulting, CODE Training and CODE Magazine. Our most recent endeavor, CODE Staffing, is a little over a year old, and reimagines how contingent staffing should work in the modern age. I think that an occasional insert of articles around staffing in all its facets is worthwhile to provide to CODE readers. Please fill out a short survey at https://forms.office.com/r/E077ft1wHY (or scan the barcode in Figure 1) and let us know if articles like this are interesting to you.
Figure 1: Barcode for CODE Staffing survey
Contingent staff in the USA is too often handled by companies that hire technical staff as contractors and provide little value beyond an annual 1099, forcing the contractors to handle their own healthcare benefits, social security, career growth, etc. At the same time, many companies find that they compete for the best developers and IT pros via their benefits, training and other growth opportunities. The result? A bifurcation in types of people in a company – the haves and the have-nots.
CODE Staffing's thesis is that staffing companies of the future will compete for and hire the best people by focusing on the total experience: streamlined hiring, excellent healthcare and retirement benefits, bringing people on as full-time W2 employees with profit sharing or employee ownership in the company, plus provide continuous education, etc. This will also have the benefit of providing great, continually improving staff for clients who need staff augmentation. CODE Staffing is our attempt to create this company of the future and to bring these benefits to our employees and customers alike, and these articles are one attempt to bring some of that thinking to the larger world.
And that brings us to the articles – running the gamut from recruiting through interviewing, hiring, and benefits.
I hope you enjoy this magazine insert – and if you have feedback about the articles, are interested in what makes us different, or even want to write for the next issue – give me a holler at yag@codestaffing.com.
