Temporary Staffing & Staff Leasing

Temporary staffing is a contractual flexibility tool exclusively managed by authorised staffing agencies. It involves three parties: the agency (formal employer), the worker and the user company (the firm employing the worker).

The main types are: - Fixed-term temporary staffing: typical maximum duration 24 months across all contracts between the same parties, with statutory exceptions. It is the most common form, used for seasonal peaks, maternity replacements and time-bound projects. - Staff leasing (open-ended temporary staffing): the worker is hired open-endedly by the agency and assigned to one or more user companies. Quota caps usually apply: in Italy, staff-leasing workers cannot exceed 20% of the user's open-ended workforce (collective agreements may vary).

Companies use temporary staffing to: manage seasonality (tourism, retail, agriculture), cover temporary roles without direct contractual exposure, test candidates before potential direct hire (the agency-to-direct-hire conversion ratio at 12 months is the most-watched KPI), manage large blue-collar volumes in sectors like logistics, construction and manufacturing.

For staffing agencies, recruiting is an industrial activity: typical volumes are 1,000-25,000 candidates/month for a mid-sized agency, distributed across dozens of branches. The challenge is running parallel pipelines for hundreds of user companies, each with different requirements, while maintaining candidate-response SLAs (typically <24 hours).

Cumino is particularly suited to staffing agencies thanks to its multi-branch dashboard, automatic CV generation in the original language + the local language (useful for staffing non-EU workers), and integration with the payroll systems most common in the sector (TeamSystem, Zucchetti, Inaz, Sage, ADP).