However, for strategic, proprietary, or mission-critical work, hiring managers want employees, not temps. They use temps for more standard jobs and ones where confidentiality is less of an issue. I believe that this is a perception issue. Although I pointed out that the same confidentiality agreements could be used for both temps and employees, the tendency still is to use regular employees for sensitive work. Working for temp agencies has a number of benefits.
Some agencies pay weekly as opposed to every two weeks or monthly.
As a temp, you are usually paid more than you would be as an employee and you get a wider variety of experiences than the average employee does. The downside is that you are usually solely responsible for providing your own benefits. Often, when you are not working, you are not paid, and there is no guarantee that you will have a continual stream of work. During the interviews, I discovered that a number of the hiring managers were temps. This arrangement works best for startups that want to minimize human resource overhead.