You Ask We Answer: The Biggest Markets?
What are the biggest industry markets for temporary staffing?
Answer:
A recent Staffing Industry Analysts survey asked staffing firms to break out their total temporary staffing revenue by customer market. In aggregate, five sectors — manufacturing, healthcare services, finance/insurance, business services and tech/telecom — accounted for two-thirds of reported temporary staffing sales.
However, staffing firms touched all major industries to some […]
Trends That Matter: The Right Manager; The Big Bucks
Developments from the Staffing Industry Daily News and The Staffing Stream to help you focus on emerging movements that could shape your business for the better.
The Right Manager
Improves staff engagement.
Staff engagement is considered as the No. 1 factor helping companies to grow, but it is also one of the most difficult to maintain. What […]
Straight Talk: Back to the Basics
In an increasingly competitive industry, staffing suppliers are promising all the bells and whistles, the whole she bang.
However, time after time, the bells and whistles only served as a detractor from accomplishing the ultimate purpose of successfully developing a lasting relationship with clients. The ones that stood the test of time and continued to deliver […]
Benefit Of Counsel: Employers Beware
A huge, federally mandated, change to compensation requirements is just around the corner. Last year, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking, the intent of which is to expand the federally mandated overtime protections to millions of new employees.
With the 60-day notice and comment period well behind us, all […]
Research Report: Made in the USA
The staffing industry has deep roots in manufacturing, stretching back to the post-WWII period when the industry began to take shape. Today, manufacturing accounts for roughly 40% of staffing revenue in the US industrial staffing skill segment, or $12.2 billion in 2014 by our estimates, and thus remains a core industry vertical for industrial staffing. […]
When Work Is Fun
When Work is fun. Staffing firms have taken this maxim to heart. They believe investing in building the right company culture yields the right rate of investment.
Staffing Industry Analysts’ seventh annual Best Staffing Firms to Work For contest reveals it’s about giving employees what they want. From treating employees like family to providing ongoing training […]
The Power of Engagement
Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent with recruiters and staffing firms each year by companies trying to attract top talent to empty positions. A natural question posed by the people holding the purse strings for recruiting spend is: Are we getting our money’s worth?
The best-in-class or most engaged organizations (regularly defined as the top […]
More Than a Bias?
Insiders debate whether vendor neutrality still has a place in today’s ecosystem: “A business approach, not a structural definition,” by Michael Werblun; “Vendor neutrality has long since evolved,” by Kip Wright.
A business approach, not a structural definition
By Michael Werblun
Vendor neutrality isn’t strictly about vendors or who supplies contingent labor anymore. It is about an objective business […]
The Other Side: Port in a Storm
Conventional wisdom has it that workers view temp work as a last resort. I may have started my journey with the same attitude but my experiences have have given a different outlook.
I began my career as an employee and customer service representative, going through a few layoffs as companies or divisions closed. Tired with the […]