VietNamNet Bridge – Instead of seeking long term personnel, businesses nowadays tend to hire short term workers for seasonal production in an effort to cut down expenses.

Analysts believe that the main characteristic of the labor market in 2013 is the rise of part time jobs and the working from home. In the digital era, working from home has become possible and more convenient. Meanwhile, the model can both satisfy workers and employers.

Freelancers work from home through Internet, while they do not have to spend time coming to the office. Meanwhile, the employers don’t have to arrange seats, working facilities and other conditions for more workers, thus allowing them to cut down expenses, while they still can be sure that the works still go smoothly.

With so many big advantages, it is foreseeable that working from home would be a growing tendency in 2012, according to the HCM City Job Center.

The conclusion was made after a survey conducted on 27,247 enterprises and the interviews with 2090 companies about their employment plan in 2013.

In fact, according to Deputy Director Tran Anh Tuan, the model of working from home appeared some years ago already, but it would see a boom in 2013. In the economic downturn, businesses have to undergo the restructuring, scaling down their production and restrict recruitment.

In this case, seeking part time employees proves to be the best solution for businesses, because they don’t have to sign labor contracts with the employees, which means that they don’t have to pay social insurance fee and follow the provisions of the labor code, which costs them a lot of money.

Tuan said that the jobs relating to information technology, event organization, housemaid, accountancy are the most popular jobs.

Working from home allows workers to optimize their income, because the working schedules are flexible. Capable workers can take on many different jobs to earn more money. Outsourcing is also really a good solution for businesses, which need to have best results for their works at the lowest possible costs.

A representative of an employment website said that the number of workers seeking jobs under the mode was 10,000 people in 2012, an increase of 27.2 percent in comparison with the previous year. Meanwhile, the number of businesses which have the demand for part time workers or collaborators has increased by 34.2 percent.

Another website said that in December 2012, the number of enterprises which sought part time workers increased by 12 percent. The manager of the website has revealed that the number of people registering part time jobs or has reached 46,934, up by 17 percent.

Hoang Vu Quynh Ha, Director of Somotsoft, a software firm, confirmed that the firm has been employing collaborators for the firm’s big projects. She said those who take the jobs in the security field or programmers can work at home.

“With the workers, we just have to pay money for their works, while we don’t have to pay allowances and other insurance policies to them,” she said.

Thanh Hai in district 7 of HCM City, who has been working for the projects invested by foreign companies over the last five years, said he has been satisfactory with the jobs.

“Since I can arrange my schedule, I can take more than one job at the same time. Now I can earn 20 million dong a month, a satisfactory income level,” Hai said.

VNE