Employee survey: stepping stone to permanent employment

Temporary work is becoming increasingly popular. This is the result of a representative survey of employees in Germany conducted by Lünendonk & Hossenfelder in cooperation with the personnel service provider Orizon.

The motivation for this is manifold: as a job during studies, after training or unemployment to (re)enter professional life or to get to know various potential employers without risk.

27% of people currently in employment in Germany have already had experience with temporary work. The rate is lowest among the over-60s (14%), while 35% of 30 to 39-year-olds have already worked in temporary employment.

At 26%, the proportion of under 20-year-olds is also high. Here, temporary employment is due to temporary work, orientation before or after training and the employment of unskilled people.

It is also interesting to observe how the preferred way of looking for a new job has changed. In addition to traditional direct applications for advertised positions, the working population in Germany considers the use of a recruitment agency to be particularly promising.

This means that recruitment agencies are more popular for job searches than unsolicited applications, hiring personnel consultants and headhunters or using the Federal Employment Agency, which came in last place.