Surveys

North America Workforce Solutions Buyers Survey 2016: MSP and VMS Cost Savings

March 6, 2017

  • 83% of buyer organizations reported at least some savings from using an MSP
  • 77% of buyer organizations indicated at least some savings from using a VMS
  • This report provides further detail based on company size, industry and primary skill set purchased

North America Workforce Solutions Buyers Survey 2016: Internal Resources Dedicated to CW Management

March 2, 2017

  • The median contingent workforce (CW) management team size was 3 FTE in our survey
  • CW management team sizes varied based on organization size and CW spend
  • Two thirds of survey respondents reported spending half or more of their time on CW management, an indication of the professional nature of... More

North America Temporary Worker Survey 2017: Temp perception of perm chances, assignment lengths, and temp vs. perm pay

March 1, 2017

  • 5,000 temporary workers surveyed
  • Expectations mostly reasonable
  • But too optimistic about perm chances

North America Workforce Solutions Buyers Survey 2016: Recruitment Process Outsourcing

February 3, 2017

  • 39% of companies surveyed use recruitment process outsourcing (RPO)
  • A majority of companies that use RPO indicate reduced time-to-fill for permanent hiring
  • Top reasons why buyers use RPO

Global Workforce Solutions Buyer Survey 2016: Skills that are difficult to recruit

January 31, 2017

  • Frequently cited hard-to-fill roles include data science, information security, Java and regulatory
  • Terms such as "niche", "specialized", and "specific" were frequently used in describing hard-to-fill roles 

North America Temporary Worker Survey 2017: What temps wish their staffing firms had told them before their assignment

January 28, 2017

  • Six areas of communication identified in need of improvement
  • Parking, dress code, benefits, hours not always clear
  • Over 5,000 temps from 38 firms surveyed

North America Staffing Company Survey 2016: Job order productivity metrics

December 27, 2016

  • 300 staffing firms surveyed
  • Job order metrics for recruiters and for salespeople
  • Job order metrics for temporary staffing and for direct hire

North America Staffing Company Survey 2016: Temporary worker payroll: propensity of W-2 vs. 1099 payment methods

December 20, 2016

  • About half of staffing firms use 1099 workers to some degree
  • Use of 1099s very light among commercial firms
  • But on average among IT firms, 28% of temps are 1099

North America Workforce Solutions Buyers Survey 2016: Satisfaction with Staffing Supplier VMS MSP and Advice to Staffing Firms

December 6, 2016

  • Report contains buyer satisfaction scores for primary staffing supplier, VMS, and MSP
  • Historical trend in Net Promoter Scores (NPS) also displayed
  • Report includes open-answer advice to staffing suppliers from buyers on how to best increase buyer satisfaction

North America Staffing Company Survey 2016: Three benchmark ratios -- temporary workers/branch, temporary workers/internal staff, internal staff/branch

November 29, 2016

  • Median temps/branch = 105; median temps/staff = 10
  • Benchmark ratios vary markedly by staffing segment
  • Over 300 staffing firms surveyed