Recruiting & Talent Acquisition

US Staffing Industry Pulse Survey Report: June 2020 Selected Highlights

June 26, 2020

  • The Pulse survey is a monthly survey of staffing firms conducted by SIA regarding US staffing trends in revenue, orders, bill rates and sales/recruiting activity. This is a high level summary of the June 2020 Special Edition Update of the Pulse Report.
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North America Temporary Worker Survey 2020: Temporary workers plans and preferences for types of work

June 24, 2020

  • Temps mostly want permanent work
  • Industrial workers often want overtime, healthcare workers often want part-time
  • Only 5% of temps would prefer to work through online platform
  • Preferences vary in many respects by occupation, wage, and age
  • 4,000 temps surveyed

North America Temporary Worker Survey 2020: How to communicate with temporary workers, what they need to know

June 5, 2020

  • Email is the most preferred method of communication
  • But preferred communication methods vary by age and hourly wage
  • Temps say they hear enough about job opportunities
  • But on eight other topics they need more information
  • Explaining website and app to temps makes these more effective

US Staffing Industry Pulse Survey Report: May 2020 Selected Highlights

May 29, 2020

  • The Pulse survey is a monthly survey of staffing firms conducted by SIA regarding US staffing trends in revenue, orders, bill rates and sales/recruiting activity. This is a high level summary of the May 2020 Special Edition Update of the Pulse Report.
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RPO Global Landscape Summary 2019

December 16, 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.

Staffing Company 2020 Planning Package

November 28, 2019

  • This report is a guide to find SIA research that will help you prepare your business for trends in 2020.
  • We have chosen approximately 100 reports to highlight in this Planning Package that we believe will be the most relevant and useful for you in planning tour strategy and preparing your business... 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

Workforce Solutions Ecosystem: 2019 Update

November 25, 2019

  • This report is the fourth update to Staffing Industry Analysts Workforce Solutions Ecosystem, initially released in September 2015. 
  • Highlights changes to staffing industry and other sectors of Ecosystem in the past year
  • New section focuses on convergence within the Ecosystem as well as... More

Big Tech, A Presence Not To Be Ignored

November 15, 2019

Article discusses recent big tech entries into the workforce solutions ecosystem, specifically digital staffing platforms by Uber and Amazon.


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