Temporary Staffing
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Temporary Help Sector Continues Strong Growth
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Temporary help provided by the staffing industry rose 3.9% in April compared to a year ago, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. An analysis by the American Staffing Association found year-over-year staffing job growth averaged 3.8% per month in the first four months of this year, significantly higher than the average of 2.2% for all of 2017.
Similarly, search and placement jobs in March rose 3 ...
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Agencies Gave Work to 15 Million People Last Year
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The staffing industry employed an average of 3.14 million workers weekly last year, making it one of the larger sectors of the national economy. Data reported today by the American Staffing Association showed employment agencies provided work during 2017 for a total of 15.49 million temporary and contract workers who were on the job an average of 10.7 weeks. In the fourth quarter of last year, typically ...
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Continued Growth Forecast for Temp Staffing
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Demand for temporary workers is predicted to increase by 3.7% this quarter, continuing a pattern of 31 consecutive quarters of year-over-year increases, according to the Palmer Forecast.The projected growth is down from the 4.3% increase in the third quarter when 26,300 new temp jobs were created, according to preliminary numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Through the end of September, 92,000 temporary positions have ...
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Staffing Employment Reaches New June High
Temporary and contract staffing continues to grow, reports the American Staffing Association, which said its Staffing Index set a 10 year high in June. The Index came in at 96.3 last week, the highest its been for that week since 2007.Read the rest of this entry »
Since staffing is highly seasonal, with employment peaking during the period between Thanksgiving and New Year's, the Index compares similar weekly periods over the years. Compared to ... -
The "Gig Economy" Is A Mystery to Most
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Enter the phrase "gig economy" into Google and you get almost half a million results. And many of those references are new just in the last two and a-half years.
Since 2014, searches for "gig economy" have taken off. So it's surprising that almost 75% of the American public haven't heard of the gig economy, and 29% can't explain what it means. Yet, that's the finding ... -
The Gig Economy Is Mostly An Uber Economy
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The much ballyhooed gig economy might just more accurately be called the "Uber economy" since the ride-sharing company may account for half, or more, of all gig workers.Research by labor economists Lawrence Katz and Alan Krueger puts the size of the gig workforce at a mere 600,000, in line with other estimates. Uber, the researchers found, accounts for half to two-thirds of those working via on-demand platforms, the ...
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The Rise of the Temp Workforce
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A Wall Street Journal article ominously titled "The End of Employees" chronicles the rise of the contingent workforce, a workforce comprised of temporary workers, freelancers and contractors.
"Never before have American companies tried so hard to employ so few people," says the article, describing the rise of outsourcing as a trend that cuts across all industries. Google alone has some 70,000 TVCs, its abbreviation for temps, vendors and contractors ... -
Demand for Contingent Workers Will Be Strong In 2017
With the economy poised for greater growth in 2017 and unemployment falling to its historic levels -- or even lower -- temporary staffing is expected to continue to expand in 2017.Read the rest of this entry »
Staffing Industry Analysts noted that "the prevailing trend for temporary help jobs over the second half of 2016 has been fairly positive." On a seasonally adjusted basis, staffing agencies employed almost 70,000 more workers in December than they did at ... -
Many Employers Plan to Keep Some Seasonal Workers
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With the holiday season rapidly approaching, seasonal hiring is in full swing with retailers nationwide expected to bring on between 640,000 and 690,000 temporary workers, according to the National Retail Federation.
At the lower end, that would be almost 100,000 fewer seasonal workers than in 2013. However, since that holiday season more shoppers than ever have done some or even all their spending online, cutting the need ... -
What Temping Can Do For You
Temping may not be your first choice for a job, but there are plenty of reasons why it shouldn't be your last.Read the rest of this entry »
College grads still looking for that first job, parents reentering the workforce after staying home to care for the children, workers who've realized their first career choice was a mistake, all have good reason to consider temping.
That was what Rachel Bitte did when she discovered ...
