Exploring the performance implications of precarious work

Precarious work, or employment that is associated with temporary contracts, low earnings and limited no employee representation, on the rise. From an operations perspective, these practices should enable flexibility reduce costs. However, from perspective of most other social sciences, precarious work harms workers harm firm performance. The objective this research to provide a comprehensive analysis performance implications work. We collected survey data in UK multiple respondents (operations human resource managers) along secondary explore how use affects company's financial, operational occupational health & safety results were mixed. did not have significant influence had negative relationship cost also established inverted u-shaped between financial performance; levels improve high both. Finally, we explored if high-performance could moderate relationships, but mostly insignificant. suggest firms only benefit relatively adoption