World Bank weighs in on recession amid fragile global economy - 1/11/2023
and developing economies (excluding China), the World Bank forecast growth to decelerate to 2.7% this year from 3.9% in 2022.
“Emerging and developing countries are facing a multiyear period of slow growth driven
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Randstad Q2 revenue down 5%, sees challenging environment with declines in perm and RPO - 7/25/2023
% and India revenue rose 10%. However, revenue in China was down 6%.
“Other Southern Europe, UK and Latin America” revenue per working day was up 1% year over year on an organic basis. Latin American revenue
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Hays gross profit falls 7% in fiscal Q1; decline expected following record quarter in prior year - 10/12/2023
, particularly in perm. Canada and US were down 31% and 27% respectively, as was Latin America, down 29%.
Asia gross profit decreased by 17%. Japan decreased by 4%, with Malaysia down 15%. China decreased by 25
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India ranks as most attractive staffing market worldwide, Canada tops Americas list: SIA - 3/19/2021
The most attractive markets for staffing are India and Malaysia, followed by China and Ireland, according to a report released Thursday by SIA. The report covers staffing markets in 60 countries ... The most attractive markets for staffing are India and Malaysia, followed by China...
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Contracted: The end of employees (The Wall Street Journal) - 2/02/2017
The outsourcing wave that moved apparel-making jobs to China and call-center operations to India is now just as likely to happen inside companies across the US and in almost every industry, The Wall ... The outsourcing wave that moved apparel-making jobs to China and call-center o...
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PageGroup gross profit up 14.0% in Q3, sees softening in client confidence - 10/12/2022
Ingham said.
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However, PageGroup’s greater China segment continued to be impacted by Covid lockdowns and restrictions, Ingham said.
“We also saw a slight softening
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CEO confidence falls sharply amid increasingly fraught geopolitical landscape - 5/25/2022
below 50 points reflect more negative responses than positive responses to the measure’s survey.
In China, meanwhile, the reading was 34. This was the first time The Conference Board measured CEO
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Human cloud firm Grab raising $2 billion from SoftBank, Didi (Reuters) - 7/14/2017
Reuters reports Grab, which ranks as Uber’s biggest rival in Southeast Asia, is raising as much as $2 billion in funding from Japan’s SoftBank Group and China's human cloud firm Didi ... Reuters reported Grab, which ranks as Uber’s biggest rival in Sou...
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Uber IPO could value company at $120 billion (The New York Times) - 10/17/2018
Human cloud/ride-sharing firm Uber could be worth as much as $120 billion in an initial public offering, and it would be the biggest IPO since the Alibaba Group of China started trading in 2014 ... Human cloud/ride-sharing firm Uber could be worth as much as $120 billion in an initial pu...
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Expansions: Albany Group, i3 - 6/30/2009
The Albany Group expanded into Shanghai, China. UnitedHealth Group's i3 division expands into Japan.
Albany reported it received an HR human resource management and deployment license from China
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