Secondment

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 and the sharing of experience.[1] Secondment is a more formal type of job rotation.[2][3] 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.

The term is primarily used in British English, but it is also frequently applied in international organizations.[4]

For example, statisticians from the Government Statistical Service may be assigned to the Full Fact charity, to check statistics presented in political campaigns and the mass media.[5] 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.[6][7]

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• Student exchange program
• Temporary duty assignment

• 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.
• 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.