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Workforce Solutions Webinar – 2019 and the Year in Review

December 17, 2019

  • Watch the full webinar on demand
  • Most newsworthy items of 2019 reviewed to ensure you head into the new year armed with insights and ideas
  • Duration approximately 1 hour

MSP Global Landscape and Differentiators Full Report 2019

December 12, 2019

This report, which includes detailed information about 26 providers:

  • Examines the global landscape of the Managed Service Provider (MSP) market
  • Identifies benefits of MSP adoption including case studies 
  • Summarizes key innovations and investments
  • Outlines the geographic footprint of providers ... More

VMS Global Landscape and Differentiators Full Report 2019

December 10, 2019

This report, which includes detailed information about 16 providers:

  • Examines the global landscape of the vendor management system (VMS) market
  • Identifies benefits of VMS adoption including case studies 
  • Summarizes key innovations and investments
  • Outlines the geographic footprint of providers ... More

Compliance with FLSA Overtime Rule Changes 2020

November 26, 2019

  • From Jan. 1, 2020 the standard salary level requirement for an employee to be exempt from the entitlement to overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) increases from $455 per week (annualized $23,660) to $684 per week (annualized $35,568), the first increase since 2004.
  • This report... More

RPO Global Landscape 2019

November 26, 2019

  • We estimate the 2018 global RPO market at $5.4 billion.
  • The market size has increased by 27% from SIA’s last market estimate of 2016. 
  • Despite a softer economic backdrop, SIA expects double digit growth to continue.

Most Complex Staffing Markets Globally

November 15, 2019

  • SIA's own methodology for evaluating the complexity of each contingent market using a mixture of our own and third-party sources.
  • This provides a basic structure for understanding the ease in which a contingent workforce programme can be put in place and a template for comparing a wide range of... More

Best Practices in Global Sourcing

November 8, 2019

Implementing a multi-country Contingent Workforce Program as consistently as possible is a complex undertaking. Using this report and recommended additional reports and documents, will help to address many of the challenges you may face when undertaking a global expansion. minimize or eliminate many... More


VMS Landscape & Differentiators 2019 Part 1: VMS Global Landscape

November 6, 2019

  • We estimate $170 billion of spend on contingent workers and services passed through a VMS in 2018
  • Double-digit growth in VMS spend across EMEA and APAC with slower growth in the Americas
  • Evidence of spend growth in the mid-market

Toward a Total Talent Future

November 1, 2019

  • This report contains results from our multinational study of HR, Procurement and other workforce professionals to gauge their opinion on talent acquisition and management trends.
  • Our study consists of a survey supplemented with interviews with leading program executives across multiple industry... More

North America Legal Update Q3 2019

October 28, 2019

  • In this report, we round up the legal developments affecting the workforce solutions ecosystem across North America in Q3 2019:
  • Canada: Prohibitions to be placed on federally regulated temp agencies’ fees; New employee entitlements in Part III of the Labour Code      ... More