Recruit Holdings, a Japanese conglomerate with a variety of global HR businesses, recently announced a string of investments into online crowdsourcing businesses. David Francis, research associate at Staffing Industry Analysts, writes about why Recruit made these investments and what the implications are for the industry in a new SIA Track blog post in The Staffing Stream.

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