Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin (BAuA/Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health), Friedrich-Henkel-Weg 1-25, D-44149 Dortmund, Germany.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Oct 23;18(21):11154. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182111154.
Organisations use non-standard employment as a means of flexibility and reduction of fixed costs. An increasingly growing group of employees are self-employed, have work contracts such as part-time and temporary contracts or are employed by a temporary agency, a development catalysed by the COVID pandemic. Whereas there is some evidence that temporary work might affect health via job insecurity (JI) there are hardly any studies focussing on the effects and mechanisms of temporary agency work (TAW). This study sheds light on TAW's potential health impact and the role of JI in this respect using a mediation analysis. Based on the BIBB/BAuA-Employment Survey 2018 (N = 20.021, representative of the German working population), we analysed the direct effect of TAW on cognitive and psychosomatic aspects of well-being. In particular, we considered JI as mediator for this association. In line with the potentially detrimental effects of temporary employment on well-being, we found that TAW was related to unfavourable outcomes in terms of job satisfaction, general health status and musculoskeletal complaints. JI partially mediated all three underlying associations. Organisations need to be flexible and adaptable. However, by using temporary agency employment as a means to achieve this flexibility, managers and leaders should be aware that it is related to unfavourable well-being and hence hidden costs. In using this type of employment, both the temporary work agency and the user company should consider these health risks by providing health care, options for increasing the temporary agency workers (TA), workers employability, and equal treatment between permanent and TA workers at the actual workplace.
组织使用非标准就业作为灵活性和降低固定成本的手段。越来越多的员工是自雇人士，拥有兼职、临时合同等工作合同，或受雇于临时工机构，这是 COVID 大流行催化的发展。虽然有一些证据表明临时工作可能会通过工作不安全感（JI）影响健康，但几乎没有研究关注临时工机构工作（TAW）的影响和机制。本研究使用中介分析探讨了 TAW 的潜在健康影响以及 JI 在这方面的作用。基于 BIBB/BAuA 就业调查 2018 年（N=20021，代表德国劳动力人口），我们分析了 TAW 对幸福感的认知和身心方面的直接影响。特别是，我们考虑了 JI 作为这种关联的中介。根据临时就业对幸福感可能产生的不利影响，我们发现 TAW 与工作满意度、一般健康状况和肌肉骨骼投诉等不利结果有关。JI 部分介导了这三个潜在的关联。组织需要灵活和适应。然而，通过将临时机构就业作为实现这种灵活性的手段，管理人员和领导者应该意识到，这与不利的幸福感有关，因此存在隐藏成本。在使用这种类型的就业时，临时工作机构和用户公司都应该通过提供医疗保健、增加临时机构工人（TA）的选择、工人的就业能力以及在实际工作场所对永久性和 TA 工人的平等待遇来考虑这些健康风险。
