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On Friday of last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released their monthly report on the status of employment. In February, unemployment remained at 9.7%. But, fortunately, for the 4^th month in a row since November 2009, nearly 50,000 new temporary jobs were added.

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics again reported a significant increase in temporary workers for the month of January - 52,000 jobs added. This is significant for a number of reasons.

First, it confirms that temporary staffing is certainly taking hold and progress is being made by staffing firms in temporary placments with their clients. For the third straight month now, temporary employment has risen in the 50,000 range each mo

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Three very large acquisitions in the staffing industry have occurred in a relatively short period of time.

Just a few months ago Adecco announced the $1.3 billion deal to acquire MPS Group. MPS Group, as many of you may know, has multiple divisions including Modis, their successful IT division, Accounting Princi… Continue

The staffing industry has endured arguably one of the worst recessions in the history of the industry this past year.

Many staffing firms have, unfortunately, been forced to close their doors. A 30% (plus) decline across the board in staffing revenue, layoffs, frozen budgets, etc., has nearly ground the industry to a halt. Any staffing firm that was able to replicate year over year revenue had call to celebrate in 2009.

I don't know about you but I'm glad 2009 is coming to an end! 2008 wasn't… Continue

The Bureau of Labor Statistics issued its monthly report today and there were a LOT of positive noteworthy changes.

First and foremost, employment in professional and business services ROSE by 86,000 in November. And most of that was due to staffing firms placing temporary workers! So, obviously November was a big month for the staffing industry.

BLS: Temporary help services accounted for the majority of the increase, adding 52,000 jobs. Since July, temporary help services employment… Continue