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Talent on tap随时备用的人才Dec 10th 2009From The Economist print editionThe fashion for hiring temps has reached the executive suite雇佣临工的风尚已吹到经理主管一族Illustration by Brett RyderTEMPORARY work is all too familiar to the masses. Farmers have always relied on seasonal workers to plough the fields and pick the crops. Companies have been hiring temps to answer the phones and do the filing for as long as anyone can remember. Now a new group of people are experiencing the joys of the flexible economy: the managerial elite.零工对大家来说是再熟悉不过了。农场主往往要请季节工耕地和摘绵花。公司雇佣零工来接电话和处理文件已经是很久的事了。现今，一新欣群体正享受着灵活经济的乐趣：那就是管理精英。The practice of appointing interim bosses actually originated in Europe some years ago as a way of coping with the continent’s rigid employment laws. But European companies were always as discreet about the practice as possible. Now the habit has reached the United States, and Americans are doing what they do naturally: shouting about it from the rooftops. No with-it company can be taken seriously without a “flexible boardroom” and a “just-in-time talent pipeline”.实际上，委任临时老板是几年前发源于欧洲，当时是为了应对欧洲大陆刚性就业法。但是欧洲公司对此总是守口如瓶。现今这做法已流传到美国并被视为常态：尽人皆知，甚嚣尘上。那些奉行此道没有“灵活会议室”、“人才培养准时制”的公司并不被认为有什么大不了。The past few years have seen the birth of several companies that hope to do for managers what Kelly Services (née Kelly Girls) and the like have done for secretaries. Call the Business Talent Group (BTG) in Los Angeles or Epoch in Boston, for example, and they will be able to offer you anything from a chief executive to a forensic accountant. If you have more specialised needs you can call Tatum (which specialises in financial executives) or the Nielsen Healthcare Group. The market for executive temps is so buoyant that even old warhorses of recruiting, such as Heidrick Struggles, are sticking their noses into it.在过去的几年里诞生了一些服务于经理人的公司，类似于凯丽服务（凯丽姑娘）这种秘书类的服务公司。称为洛杉机商业天才集团或波士顿新纪元，例如，他们能提供从行政总裁到法医会计师的服务。如果你有更多的专业需求可以求助于泰特姆（专门从事财务主管服务）或尼尔森医疗集团。临时主管市场如此火爆以至于要招募那些退休的专业人士，诸如Heidrick Struggles