{"id":407514,"date":"2026-05-01T23:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/407514\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T23:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:54:15","slug":"employers-shift-to-temporary-workers-as-economic-uncertainty-persists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/407514\/","title":{"rendered":"Employers Shift to Temporary Workers as Economic Uncertainty Persists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Employers across the US and Europe are increasingly relying on temporary workers to keep their businesses going, holding off on permanent hires because of economic instability and artificial intelligence-driven disruptions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Staffing firms, in their latest earnings calls, said clients are turning to contractors as companies evaluate how AI will affect their labor needs. The unpredictability of global geopolitics and the economy is adding to hesitancy over how many workers they need, and for how long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Employers across the US and Europe are increasingly relying on temporary workers to keep their businesses going, holding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[363,138,64377,4568,219,2024,209719,648,232,3678,111,139,69,209720,209718,2025],"class_list":["post-407514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business","tag-chief-financial-officer","tag-earnings","tag-economy","tag-europe","tag-hays-plc","tag-industries","tag-jobs","tag-labor","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-randstad-nv","tag-robert-half-inc","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}