BRIEFING — Travel nurse staffing growth update
Financial reports indicate that travel nurse staffing, while still weak, did not experience a further deceleration in the first quarter. At the same time, forward-looking comments from some of the larger players in this space are optimistic. For more, click here.

BRIEFING — Outplacement growth update
Outplacement continues to be one of the faster growing areas of staffing. In 1Q08, worldwide outplacement revenue at Adecco's Human Capital Solutions business and Manpower's Right Management increased 13.0% and 4.5% respectively, adjusted for acquisitions and currency effects. For both firms, this represents the third consecutive quarter of growth, following a long period of modest contraction. For more, click here.

INSIGHT: 2008 VMS/MSP marketplace profile
This Insight is an in-depth research effort to characterize the workforce management landscape. Last year, we released a ranking of vendor management systems (VMS) providers based on the number of unique temporaries going through their system in the fourth quarter of 2006. This year, we expanded the scope of the report to include managed services providers. For more, click here.