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**Source**: https://hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/secondments
**Parent**: https://hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/staff-benefits

There are different types of secondment.

**Internal** - the temporary movement of a University employee to another area of the University

**Outward** - the temporary movement of a University employee to a college or to an external company

**Inward** - the temporary movement of an employee of an external company to a role within the University

During the secondment the legal employer continues to carry legal obligations towards the secondee, so where a University employee is seconded, the University continues to have legal obligations towards the employee.

At the end of a secondment the employee will usually return to work for their legal employer.