Sentence examples for contingent staff from inspiring English sources

In light of the further deterioration of global economic conditions, Microsoft announced additional steps to manage costs, including the reduction of headcount-related expenses, vendors and contingent staff, facilities, capital expenditures and marketing.

"We are not good at managing that part of the business," explained Sharon Decker, director of contingent staff at Microsoft.

This policy gap exists despite increasing scholarly focus on the individual and organisational consequences associated with the greater reliance on casual or contingent staff in the workplace (17– 26).

This makes budget planning and contingent staffing decisions sophisticated guesswork for boards, and a source of never-ending anxiety and sleeplessness for executive directors.

Rather, they are cases of contingent staffing or just-in-time staffing; short-term methods that may help employers cut costs temporarily, but certainly do not provide increased flexibility for employees.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is dispatching a contingent of staff to the State Emergency Operations Center in Albany.

A goodly portion of the Australian contingent, Turnbull staff and some journalists, left the Berlin embassy on Friday night for a quick bite after the soiree.

Sue Goodchild, who served as her social secretary during all her time in Downing Street, was among a large contingent of staff – both before and after her time in politics – who had come to pay their last respects.

Although Wal-Mart has had a poor year, every speaker got a standing ovation – including rousing applause from a contingent of staff from Wal-Mart's British supermarket chain, Asda, who joined in the flag-waving with gusto.

"We know that the refinery likely cannot continue to employ a full contingent of staff" without soon increasing production, Atwood said.

Contingent faculty members constitute 71% of GM Us teaching staff, not far from the national rate of 75%.