Temporary, contract staffing employment up 3.8% over year: ASA staffing index

Temporary and contract staffing employment rose 3.8% in the week of Sept. 10 to Sept. 16 compared to the same week last year, according to the American Staffing Association’s staffing index.

Week over week, the ASA Staffing Index rose 1.7% to a rounded value of 101. While businesses recovered from...

Potential employees give weigh to online reviews; 38% want three stars or higher

Negative reviews can damage your company’s star rating and turn off a fair number of job seekers, according to research released today by Monster.

In a recent poll of 756 people in the US, Monster found the majority, 38%, would only apply to companies with at least a three-star rating (based on a five-star...

BG Staffing names new CEO, but former top exec will remain chairman

BG Staffing Inc. (NYSE MKT: BGSF), promoted Beth Garvey to CEO and president, effective Oct. 1. She replaces L. Allen Baker, Jr., who will resign from those roles but remain as chairman of the board.

Baker took on the president and CEO roles at BG Staffing in April 2009....

Consumer confidence hovers near 18-year high

The Conference Board’s consumer confidence index increased in September following a large improvement in August. The index rose to a reading of 138.4 (1985=100), up from 134.7 in August. This is close to an 18-year high and not far from the all-time high of 144.7 reached in 2000.

“Consumers’ assessment...

Trillium acquires hospitality staffing firm in Phoenix

Trillium Staffing acquired Executemps Southwest Staffing, aka ESW Staffing, a hospitality and event staffing firm headquartered in Phoenix.

ESW has operated in the Phoenix area for more than 30 years. The company provides temporary recruitment of servers, bartenders, chefs, cooks, supervisors, leads and...

No Uber for other industries — Staffing quote of the week

“While we’ve seen incredible attempts at the Uber of dog walking or the Uber for massages, we’re not seeing a level of participation [by workers] that would suggest these platforms are starting to disrupt many industries,” Katharine Abraham told The Washington Post. Abraham is a professor at...

More than half of staffing firms provide training to temp workers: SIA

More than half of staffing agencies offer some training to temporary workers, according to Staffing Industry Analysts’ new report, North America Staffing Company Survey 2018: Training Options Offered to Temporary Workers. Free online training, the most common method provided, is offered by 40% of staffing...

Upwork sets IPO price range, market value of firm could be up to $1.3 billion

Upwork, the largest B2B human cloud firm, set a price range for shares in its initial public offering of between $10 and $12, according to a filing on Friday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The IPO would raise $135.0 million at the midpoint of the range. Renaissance Capital reported Upwork...

Alexander Mann taps former Pontoon exec for leadership roles

Alexander Mann Solutions, a London-based provider of RPO and MSP services, appointed Michael Wachholz as president of the Americas and the global head of contingent workforce solutions.

Wachholz previously was president of Adecco’s Pontoon business, which also provides MSP and RPO services. Wachholz...

Recruiter.com to get new owner in all-stock deal

Truli Technologies Inc. (OTC: TRLI) signed a letter of intent to acquire Recruiter.com Inc., a website based in Bristol, Conn., that links job seekers, recruiters and employers. Truli plans to change its name to Recruiter.com and update its ticker symbol once the deal is complete.

Truli is a New York-based...