Meaning of body shopping | Babel Free

Definitions

The practice of consultancy firms recruiting workers (generally in the information technology sector) to contract their services out on a tactical short- to medium-term basis.

uncountable

Examples

“In body shopping, the client hires a consultant to do a task that he or she cannot do because of time or resource pressures. […] A client resorts to body shopping when deadlines are tight or there are not enough people to undertake the task in the time available; […].”

CEFR level