Flexible employment opportunities gaining traction with job seekers

Flexible employment is fast changing the domestic labor market due to rising demand for such arrangements from efficiency-conscious and cost-sensitive employers, experts said.

Flexible employment includes part-time posts, labor dispatch, labor service and cooperation, short-term contracts, temporary workers and personnel outsourcing. About 52 percent of the surveyed companies have introduced flexible employment for their staffing requirements, according to RenruiHR.com, a Chinese human resources service provider.

"Employers don't need to 'own' employees, but to 'use' employees. A company needs talent only when it has an assignment. When an assignment is finished, there is hardly any reason to retain so much talent," said Zhang Jianguo, founder of RenruiHR, at a recent forum.