Midsize companies struggle to find recruitment ‘sweet spot,’ survey finds

Midsize companies struggle to find the sweet spot in recruitment, according to the Recruitment Sweet Spot survey released today by Beyond and Red Branch Media.

Twenty-four percent of midsize companies reported they lack budgets for advertising, 28% said they lack budgets for compensation negotiation and...

Uber adds app features for drivers (TechCrunch)

Uber rolled out new app features for drivers on its new driver-focused “Behind the Wheel” blog, TechCrunch reports.

Lyft CBO on millennials and corporate travel: ‘Attitudinal shift’ — Staffing quote of the week

“I would definitely say that there is a shift in attitudes, and we are seeing that predominately out of the millennial generation,” said David Baga, Lyft's chief business officer, in a discussion on Bloomberg West about Lyft's focus on corporate travel. “In the next four years they are going...

AMN buys medical coding firm Peak Health Solutions

AMN Healthcare Services Inc. (NYSE: AHS), the largest US healthcare staffing firm, acquired health information management services company Peak Health Solutions.

Peak Health Solutions provides remote medical coding and consulting solutions to hospitals and physician medical groups nationwide. The company...

ManpowerGroup to acquire Ciber Netherlands in $25 million deal

ManpowerGroup (NYSE: MAN) is set to acquire the Dutch business of IT solutions and staffing provider Ciber Inc. (NYSE: CBR).

Ciber Netherlands and its 400 employees will transition over to ManpowerGroup. The transaction is expected to close in mid-June, following regulatory approvals. Transaction terms...

Command Center acquires Hancock Staffing

Command Center Inc. (OTCQB: CCNI), an industrial staffing provider, acquired substantially all of the assets of Hancock Staffing.

The transaction closed June 3, and Command Center paid for the acquisition with cash on hand.

Hancock Staffing operated branches in Little Rock, Ark., and Oklahoma City. The...

Economists lower GDP projections in new NABE survey

Economists surveyed by the National Association for Business Economics lowered their growth projections for the US economy in 2016 and 2017, the association announced today.

The forecaster’s median forecast in the new survey is for inflation-adjusted US real gross domestic product to grow at an annualized...

Staffing company founder dies

The founder of Chicago-based temporary staffing provider Labor World, Alan Schubert, died June 1.

Schubert began his staffing career in 1965 at Nationwide Staffing in Chicago and opened Labor World with Lou Morelli and Larry Schubert in 1974. The company initially provided day labor industrial service,...

‘Staffing for Canada Week’ begins

This week is Staffing for Canada Week, the Association of Canadian Search, Employment and Staffing Services announced. The week aims at acknowledging the more than 400,000 Canadians employed through the staffing profession.

The week first began in 1980 as “National Temporaries’ Week” in Edmonton....

US job creation slowdown likely to persist through summer (MarketWatch)

Employment bellwethers hint the slowdown in US job creation in the past few months is likely to persist during the summer, MarketWatch reports. A Federal Reserve index that tracks 19 labor-market indicators was negative in May for the fifth straight month, and The Conference Board’s Employment Trends...