Temporary employment in the Netherlands 2022

In 2022, 19.8 percent of all employees working in the Netherlands were classed as being temporary employees, such as those with seasonal employment, or those employed through an agency. The peak for temporary employment, as a share of total employment in the Netherlands was in 2014, when 22.8 percent of the workforce were defined as being temporary.

Temporary employees as percentage of the total number of employees in the Netherlands from 2009 to 2022

Characteristic	Temporary employees as percentage of overall workforce
2009	20.6%
2010	20.6%
2011	20.6%
2012	21.4%
2013	22.1%
2014	22.8%
2015	21.7%
2016	21.9%
2017	22.5%
2018	21.9%
2019	20.8%
2020	19.2%
2021	19.4%
2022	19.8%

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Release date

April 2023

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Region

Netherlands

Survey time period

2009 to 2022

Age group

20-64 years

Supplementary notes

The source adds the following information: "A job may be considered temporary if employer and employee agree that its end is determined by objective conditions such as a specific date, the completion of a task or the return of another employee who has been temporarily replaced (usually stated in a work contract of limited duration). Typical cases are: (a) persons with seasonal employment; (b) persons engaged by an agency or employment exchange and hired to a third party to perform a specific task (unless there is a written work contract of unlimited duration); (c) persons with specific training contracts. The indicator is based on the EU Labour Force Survey."

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