Secondment
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Secondment is the temporary assignment of a member of one organization to another organization. In some jurisdictions, (e.g., India) such temporary transfer of employees is called "on deputation".[1] The term is particular to Great Britain[2] and Commonwealth countries.[3]
In the Soviet Union, such reassignment was called Commadirovki and denotes career-related trips outside of work. For example, the 1967 comedy Kidnapping, Caucasian Style takes place while its protagonist Shurik is on secondment to Caucasus in order to record indigenous folklore.[4]
Job rotation
The employee typically retains their salary and other employment rights from their primary organization but they work closely within the other organization to provide training, a liaison between the two companies and the sharing of experience.[5] Secondment is a more formal type of job rotation.[6][7] This is not to be confused with temporary work.
Secondment, sometimes referred to as employer of record (EoR) or professional employer organization (PEO), can also be used to help organizations hire during a headcount freeze. In the current day, some businesses use it as a solution to enter into new markets, bypassing the cost of opening their own business entity.[8]
Use
For example, statisticians from the British Government Statistical Service may be assigned to the Full Fact charity, to check statistics presented in political campaigns and the mass media.[9] In the military, an exchange officer is a commissioned officer in a country's armed forces who is temporarily seconded either to a unit of the armed forces of another country or to another branch of the armed forces of their own country.[10][11]
See also
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References
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Deputation guidelines for group C employees" (PDF). Department of Personnel and Training. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 5, 2024. Retrieved November 5, 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."International secondments for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office". GOV.UK. December 12, 2016. Retrieved November 5, 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Secondment arrangements and procedures for Commonwealth employees (RMG 121)". Australian Government Department of Finance.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mosfilm (1967). Kidnapping, Caucasian Style. 6:34 minutes in. Retrieved January 3, 2026 – via YouTube.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cunningham, Ian; Dawes, Graham; Bennett, Ben (2004), "Secondments and Related Approaches", The Handbook of Work Based Learning, Gower Publishing, p. 137, ISBN 9780566085413
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Thomson, Rosemary; Thomson, Andrew (May 4, 2012). Managing People. Routledge. ISBN 9781136382826.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Rishipal (2011). Training and Development Methods. S. Chand Publishing. ISBN 9788121936569.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The employer of record model can benefit employers and employees alike". World Economic Forum. Archived from the original on September 9, 2025. Retrieved November 5, 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.About Full Fact (PDF), Government Statistical Service, 2017, archived from the original (PDF) on December 5, 2021, retrieved May 28, 2017
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Short-Term Interchanges of Staff: First Report. Australian Government Pub. Service. 1978. ISBN 9780642036957.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Reflections on an Air Force/Navy Exchange Tour". Air University Review. United States Air Force. March–April 1971. Archived from the original on October 28, 2015.
Further reading
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Centre for Employment Initiatives (Great Britain) (1988). Seconds Out: Business Secondment in Theory and Practice. Centre for Employment Initiatives. ISBN 978-0-9513288-0-4.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ntata, Pierson R. T. (February 2017). "Capacity Building through Secondment of Staff: A Possible Model in Emergencies?". Development in Practice. 17 (1): 104–113. doi:10.1080/09614520601092725. JSTOR 25548182. S2CID 154173775.
