The likelihood of a firm expanding its service offerings is strongly associated with firm size.
As part of our 2012 Staffing Company Survey, conducted last September, we asked staffing firms to tell us which of eight staffing-related services they currently offer, or would be likely to […]
The owner of a small flower shop has a beautiful website that makes clear to visitors her store is the obvious choice. However, it lacks online shopping capabilities. Site visitors cannot browse her inventory, check prices or place orders online. But her website designer is just a part-time college […]
Few words make staffing executives’ blood boil more quickly than “healthcare reform.” Although the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act sought to make health insurance available to 30 million more individuals, it creates quite the imposition on staffing. Employers with more than 50 employees who fail to […]
For the average staffing executive, identifying promising metropolitan markets for potential expansion can feel like throwing darts at a map of the U.S. — blindfolded. Except in addition to choosing a location, he or she must also identify an industry segment, which would be like throwing labeled darts at […]
More than half of large buyers say they let go of contingent workers because of assignment limits, according to a new survey from Staffing Industry Analysts, the publisher of this magazine.
Buyers cited several reasons for time limits. They included workforce planning issues as well as other matters that ranged from “union agreements” to the “historical […]
What’s the most important factor to buyers when selecting a staffing service? If you guessed price, you were wrong.
According to a survey of buyers by Staffing Industry Analysts, 77 percent rate quality of workers as their top concern.
Only 12 percent cited speed of placement as the most […]
