Wal-Mart: General Motors

General Motors: From Wal-Mart to General Motors to PepsiCo, companies are increasingly turning to temps and to a much larger universe of freelancers, contract workers and consultants. Combined, these workers number nearly 17 million people who have only tenuous ties to the companies that pay them -- about 12 per cent of everyone with a job, according to CTV. The number of temps has jumped more than 50 per cent since the recession ended four years ago to nearly 2.7 million -- the most on government records dating to 1990. In no other sector has hiring come close and WASHINGTON -- Hiring is exploding in the one corner of the U.S. economy where few want to be hired: Temporary work. Hiring is always healthy for an economy. Yet the rise in temp and contract work shows that many employers aren't willing to hire for the long run. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.