The US staffing industry is projected to grow 6 percent in 2015, according to Staffing Industry Analysts’ latest forecast, with growth fueled by acceleration in the US economy and secular growth drivers. (A secular trend is an overarching, longer-term trend not dictated by the economic cycle.) This […]
Every year, Staffing Industry Analysts surveys buyers of contingent labour to get a better understanding of their needs and also to gauge their views on the services they receive from their suppliers.
The 2014 survey reflects the opinions of respondents from almost 100 companies operating in Europe […]
At some point in the last five years, you have probably felt pressured to expand your company’s social media presence. You have probably been told that if your company fails to fully utilize social media, it is falling behind, it is back- ward, and might quickly become obsolete. To illustrate the high-pressure rhetoric regarding […]
By Ziv Tepman
As a business leader in the staffing industry, it can be tempting to compare your company’s performance solely to what you have achieved in the past. This is the lowest hanging fruit because the data is so easily accessible to you. However, setting […]
The U.S. temporary workforce is larger than ever, according to two closely-watched measures reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In its monthly jobs report regarding December 2013, the BLS reported that the U.S. temporary help industry had reached a record 2.8 million jobs. In […]
Is your company website geared more toward clients or candidates? And in terms of business success, how would you rate your website, on a scale from 0 to 10?
That’s precisely what we asked the owners of more than 8,000 staffing firms in a recent poll. What […]
This June marked the four-year anniversary of the end of the Great Recession, and now seems like a fitting time to assess the condition of the U.S. workforce and to examine the implications for owners and executives of staffing firms. We make three observations. First, historic […]
Contrary to many of the negative temporary staffing narratives reported in the news, these provisional assignments do help people find full-time jobs.
In a survey conducted in the summer of 2012, we asked staffing firms serving a variety of industries what portion of their temporary workers typically […]
SIA projects US staffing market to increase 6% in 2013
As a staffing firm executive, you are tasked with growing your business and delivering a financial return to your firm’s owners. The good news is that your job is made a little easier by the fact that the U.S. staffing market is projected to grow 6 […]
In the aftermath of the great recession, job growth in temp staffing has far outpaced overall job growth. Between 2009 and 2012, the number of U.S. jobs grew a total of only 2 percent. In the same time period, the number of jobs in the U.S. temp staffing industry […]
