Empower your temporary workforce
Meet the computing needs of your temporary workforce—and simplify onboarding and offboarding—without wasting time on device management.
Overview
What is a temporary worker?
A temporary worker is someone who's being hired by an organization for a short period of time. To maximize the productivity of temporary workers, IT teams need to deploy them quickly and provide secure access to critical apps on any device—including their personal ones.
Types of workers
Types of temporary workers
There are many workers in an organization who could be classified as temporary. IT administrators should consider a Bring Your Own PC (BYOPC) strategy for the following types of workers:
Project-based contractors
Project-based contractors are hired to meet certain goals or accomplish a specific set of deliverables.
Short-term employees
Short-term employees are hired for narrow, timebound roles. This category includes interns, students, and trainees.
Seasonal workers
Seasonal workers are hired to meet surges in demand. They may join a team seasonally or during a growth phase and are crucial to maintaining staff agility.
Reasons to invest
Benefits and opportunities
Temporary workers are the backbone of any truly agile organization. Maximize the versatility of your workforce by investing in technology that enables flexible work scenarios.
- Since temporary workers will only be working with an organization for a short period of time, it’s essential to get them up and running as quickly as possible. Trim the onboarding process down to hours with Windows 365 Cloud PCs—compared to five days on on-premises VDI environments.1
- Every device that needs access to corporate resources—including temporary workers’ personal devices—should be healthy, secure, and continuously managed. Close security gaps and increase your team’s peace of mind with a protected, compliant Windows experience on Windows 365 Cloud PCs.
- Set up a single Cloud PC—or thousands—in just a few steps. Onboard and offboard employees just as quickly with rapid deployment features, making it easy to scale as staffing needs change.
The Essential Guide to Bring Your Own PC
The Essential Guide to Bring Your Own PC
Read this e-book to discover how a BYOPC strategy can help your organization empower hybrid workers and maintain productivity without overwhelming your IT department.
Your Windows in the cloud
Equip your temporary employees with Windows 365 Cloud PCs, so they can quickly onboard and be ready to work—wherever they're located.
Data Security
Secure Data for a Flexible Workforce
Manage more with less
Easily deploy and manage Windows 365 Cloud PCs to your temporary workforce using your existing tools and team, maximizing your IT technology investment. Onboard seasonal and temporary team members without needing to make an in-person visit and set up a single Cloud PC—or thousands—in just a few steps.
Productivity on any device
Equip temporary employees with Windows 365 Cloud PCs to help them perform at their best. Employees get the same Windows experience no matter which device they're using—or where they're working from—ensuring business continuity across your entire team.
Secure by design
Easily equip everyone in your workforce with a secure Windows experience on any device. Support your temporary workforce and uphold Zero Trust principles by implementing cloud-based controls that work seamlessly with leading security, identity, and compliance solutions from Microsoft.
Explore more scenarios
Enable other scenarios with Windows 365
Bring Your Own PC (BYOPC)
Maximize your IT investment and empower people to work securely—even on personal devices—with a BYOPC deployment strategy.
Data security
Protect against security risks and provide better data protection to flexible workers across your organization's computing environment.
Additional resources
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- [1]Enterprise Strategy Group, Exploring the Economic Benefits of Windows 365, commissioned by Microsoft, June 2022.
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