For example, workforce analytics enabled a large distribution company to analyze historical information and use it to optimize its labor force by scheduling the right mix of full-time, part-time and temporary labor on a variety of schedules.

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Seniors get guaranteed coverage, while many younger workers labor in temporary or part-time jobs without benefits.

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Some of the most optimistic remarks came from temporary-staffing and labor-outsourcing companies.

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About a third of Japan's labor force are temporary workers who have no job security.

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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the job market's second-biggest gains, after health care, were in temporary help services, as employers who couldn't invest in full-time staffers turned to part-time labor instead.

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The question of temporary workers has traditionally produced a stark divide between business and labor, with business seeking a large, low-cost supply of workers, and labor opposed to any guest-worker program that could threaten American laborers and produce questionable working conditions.

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Overall labor market conditions improved modestly across the Districts, with several reports of temporary hiring.

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If the migrant workers needed by the American economy were allowed to enter legally through an orderly process of increased quotas--for temporary and permanent migration--practically all of the negative aspects associated with the immigration of low-skilled labor would cease.

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