Temporary work Temporary work Temporary work or temporary employment (also called odd jobs) refers to an employment situation where the working arrangement is limited to a certain period of time based on the needs of the employing organization. Temporary employees are sometimes called "contractual", "seasonal", "interim", "casual staff", "outsourcing", "freelance"; or the word may be shortened to "temps". In some instances, temporary, highly skilled professionals (particularly in the white-collar worker fields, such as law, engineering, and accounting) refer to themselves as consultants. Temporary work is different from secondment, which is the assignment of a member of one organisation to another organisation for
Temporary Secretary Temporary Secretary "Temporary Secretary" is a song by Paul McCartney, featured on his 1980 album "McCartney II". In 2013, "Rolling Stone" ranked it the #36 all-time McCartney post-Beatles song, calling it a "cult favorite" and an "oddly catchy electro-pop nugget, about a slightly creepy-sounding guy looking to hire a temp." In 2014, "Temporary Secretary" was ranked as one of the greatest songs of all time by critics of "NME" magazine. They described it as "wonky electropop that didn't sound so much ahead of its time as out of it altogether." McCartney later said that he had had temporary secretaries, and