According to the IRS, “if a company hired workers from a temp agency to do work for a long period of time...the government may see the company as an employer or “join employer”” (Noe et al., 142). Hence, if a company did “not want the headache of administering benefit programs” and employed tempworkers for several years, I would predict the IRS would conclude these individuals are employees (Noe et al., 142). It would be a joint employment because I consider employment less than a year to be a short term employment. Conversely, several years is long period of time. According to Cornell University Law School, a company may be interested in joint employment because only the primary employer has to the responsibility to pay for benefits, health
