What happens if the temp employee doesn't work out?
What staffing and recruiting agencies need to publish
A placement that fails is a real cost to the client, and the agency's actual replacement policy determines whether that risk is genuinely shared or left entirely with the client.
How customers actually ask it
The same intent arrives in wording your page probably does not use. All of these mean the same thing:
- “What happens if the temp employee doesn't work out?”
- “replacement guarantee staffing agency”
- “can I send back a bad temp worker”
- “temp worker not a good fit”
What a complete answer contains
For staffing and recruiting agencies specifically, an answer is only complete when it covers all 5:
- 1
The specific replacement guarantee terms — timeframe and conditions
- 2
How quickly a replacement is typically found once a client raises a concern
- 3
The distinction between a performance issue and a conduct or attendance issue, since these may be handled differently
- 4
Whether the client is billed again for the replacement or the original placement's terms carry over
- 5
What feedback the agency wants from the client to prevent the same mismatch on the replacement
A worked example
Illustrative — not a real business
If a temporary placement is not working out for any reason — skill mismatch, attendance, fit with the team — call us and we typically have a qualified replacement candidate available within 24 to 48 hours, often supplying a shortlist the same day for you to choose from rather than a single name. Our standard guarantee covers any replacement within the first five working days at no additional markup or fee; issues raised after that window are still addressed quickly, but the terms are worth confirming per contract since policies vary by client agreement. We treat a genuine skills or fit mismatch differently from a documented conduct or attendance problem — the latter usually moves faster since it does not require re-evaluating whether the role description matched the placement. We will ask what specifically did not work so the replacement is not simply another version of the same mismatch, since that feedback loop is what actually improves the next placement rather than just repeating the process.
Which page should own it
Replacement guarantee page
What silence costs
An unclear replacement policy is the single biggest source of client churn to a competing agency after one bad placement.
More questions staffing and recruiting agencies get
- Who is my actual employer during a temp assignment?
- What's your conversion fee if we hire a temp permanently?
- How long does it take to fill a position?
- How fast can you actually fill an open position for us?
- During a temp assignment, who is actually the employer — you or the client company?
- What's the fee if we want to hire a temp permanently instead of continuing through you?
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AI customer support for staffing agencies
Staffing relationships have two facts that both candidates and client companies need stated plainly: during a temp placement, the agency (not the client company) is legally the employer of record, and converting a temp to a permanent hire usually triggers a real conversion fee. RubyRep explains both clearly, alongside the process and pricing questions both sides ask constantly.
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What is AI customer service?
AI customer service means answering customer questions with a language model rather than a person. The useful implementations are grounded in a specific business's own content; the poor ones let a general model improvise, which produces confident answers that are wrong.
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What is a knowledge base?
Traditionally a knowledge base is a help centre humans read. For AI support it is the source material a representative answers from — which means an ordinary website, well written, can serve as one without a separate help centre.
Does your site answer this already?
Point RubyRep at your website and ask it this exact question. If it cannot answer, neither can your customers.