With the objective of determining and analyzing the perception of the quality of life among the employees of a
food manufacturing company in the city of Armenia who are hired through a temporary services company, a
theoretical revision was carried out on the needs that must be filled to reach a good level of quality of life. From
the reviewed authors, Manfred Max Neef was selected, and from his theory of development at a human scale six
categories of needs that must be fulfilled in order to reach an adequate quality of life were chosen. These
categories; namely, subsistence, protection, participation, leisure, identity and freedom, were included in the
instrument designed for this study which consisted on a semi-structured interview which was applied not only to
the employees hired on mission but also to the group of employees hired directly by the company. The results of
this interview, contrasted with the prior theoretical foundation, produced a clearer vision on how hiring through a
temporary services company affects the perception of the quality of life among the workers hired this way.