permalancer
a temporary worker on a long-term assignment
TRANSLATION
permalancer = ein Freiberufler, der für eine Firma auf lange Sicht arbeitet (DH)
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Making the PERMALANCER permanent has implications for how the industry will operate.
On the plus side is the chance to pick from a large talent pool, control costs and gain the flexibility to move resources between units as needed.
The downside is a range of management challenges, including maintaining quality, higher training costs and navigating lots of employment regulations.
(adapted from Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management)
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She calls herself a PERMALANCER. Technically, Melora Soodalter freelances for a living, but after three years working practically full time in the cubicles (abgetrennte Räume) known as "freelance row" at HBO in New York, she has an office of her own.
(adapted from the Christian Science Monitor)
On the plus side is the chance to pick from a large talent pool, control costs and gain the flexibility to move resources between units as needed.
The downside is a range of management challenges, including maintaining quality, higher training costs and navigating lots of employment regulations.
(adapted from Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management)
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She calls herself a PERMALANCER. Technically, Melora Soodalter freelances for a living, but after three years working practically full time in the cubicles (abgetrennte Räume) known as "freelance row" at HBO in New York, she has an office of her own.
(adapted from the Christian Science Monitor)
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permalancer
slang
- A freelance worker who has worked in one company for so long that he or she is virtually a permanent member of staff.
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WORD ORIGIN
Permalancer is a portmanteau (see description that follows) combining the words permanent and freelancer.
More and more businesses are using permalancers as a means of reducing personnel costs, particularly the cost of social benefits, which in some countries can be as high as 30 percent of a full-time employee's base salary. Permalancers also offer businesses the flexibility to bring in resources only when they are needed, making this concept a “just-in-time” inventory of human resource talent.
Opponents of this approach argue that it's merely a way for businesses to avoid paying social benefits to some employees. Proponents contend that it's a necessary tool in today's globally competitive world.
Portmanteau: a word whose form and meaning are derived from a blending of two or more distinct forms such as smog (smoke and fog). It derives from the French portmanteau, which is a suitcase that opens up into two separate compartments.
Lewis Carroll was the first to use portmanteau in this sense in his book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). Humpty Dumpty gives Alice the following explanation of some of the words in Jabberwocky: "Well, slithy means lithe and slimy ... You see it's like a portmanteau- there are two meanings packed up into one word."
Other examples of portmanteaus are cyborg (cybernetic organism), Reaganomics (Reagan economics), Bollywood (Bombay and Hollywood) and mockumentary (mock documentary).
(sources: Wikipedia, www.answers.com)
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
“We have two permalancers in our department, they have been working for us for more than three years now.”
slang
- A freelance worker who has worked in one company for so long that he or she is virtually a permanent member of staff.
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WORD ORIGIN
Permalancer is a portmanteau (see description that follows) combining the words permanent and freelancer.
More and more businesses are using permalancers as a means of reducing personnel costs, particularly the cost of social benefits, which in some countries can be as high as 30 percent of a full-time employee's base salary. Permalancers also offer businesses the flexibility to bring in resources only when they are needed, making this concept a “just-in-time” inventory of human resource talent.
Opponents of this approach argue that it's merely a way for businesses to avoid paying social benefits to some employees. Proponents contend that it's a necessary tool in today's globally competitive world.
Portmanteau: a word whose form and meaning are derived from a blending of two or more distinct forms such as smog (smoke and fog). It derives from the French portmanteau, which is a suitcase that opens up into two separate compartments.
Lewis Carroll was the first to use portmanteau in this sense in his book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). Humpty Dumpty gives Alice the following explanation of some of the words in Jabberwocky: "Well, slithy means lithe and slimy ... You see it's like a portmanteau- there are two meanings packed up into one word."
Other examples of portmanteaus are cyborg (cybernetic organism), Reaganomics (Reagan economics), Bollywood (Bombay and Hollywood) and mockumentary (mock documentary).
(sources: Wikipedia, www.answers.com)
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
“We have two permalancers in our department, they have been working for us for more than three years now.”
