Swiss staffing market falls 5.8% in 2023 amid labour shortages

The Swiss temporary staffing sector shrank by 5.8% in 2023 when compared to 2022, according to Swiss Staffing, the Swiss Federation of Staffing Companies. The labour shortage had a major impact on staffing firms’ business development in 2023 as job seekers were less readily available.

Despite the 5.8%...

APSCo calls for focus on temporary work for Spring Budget 2024

The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) has called for a refocus on supporting the highly skilled temporary workforce in the upcoming Spring Budget. 

In its recommendations for the Budget, which is set to be announced on 6 March 2024, the trade association for the UK’s professional...

NGS Group signs framework agreement with Swedish government

NGS Group AB (NGS:STO), a Sweden-based staffing firm, announce that its subsidiary Source has entered into an agreement with the Swedish government office.

The framework agreement, which enters into force at the end of February, has a term of two years with the possibility of an extension for a total...

Eurozone narrowly avoids recession in Q4 (The Guardian)

The eurozone has narrowly avoided recession after the region’s economy flatlined at the end of 2023, The Guardian reports, citing quarterly figures from Eurostat. Zero growth in the single currency zone in the final quarter of last year followed a 0.1% economic contraction in the third quarter, meaning...

Belgium’s temporary employment sector up slightly in December

The number of hours worked by temporary agency workers in Belgium recorded an uptick of 0.43% in December 2023 when compared to the same period a year ago, according to calendar-basis adjusted data from Federgon, the Belgian federation of staffing agencies.

The 0.43% increase was attributed to a year-on-year...

German companies plan to hire less staff in 2024

Companies in Germany are more reluctant to hire new staff in 2024, when compared to 2023, according to the latest study by the ifo Institute for Economic Research.

Klaus Wohlrabe, Deputy Director of the ifo Center for macroeconomics and surveys and head of surveys, said the difficult economic situation...

Most Polish employees expect pay rises in 2024

The majority of Polish employees (60%) expect their salaries to increase in 2024, according to a study by the Randstad Research Institute and the Pollster Research Institute.

The study found that over the last three years, the percentage of employees expecting pay raises has been gradually increasing....

UK workers prefer human touch to AI when job searching

The majority of workers in the UK (70%) prefer the human touch to AI when looking for a job, according to the latest candidate sentiment survey from Robert Half.

The survey also found that 36% of people across the UK choose to deal with humans rather than AI while 34% stated that they are happy for AI...

Mare Nostrum Q4 and full year revenue drops amid temp staffing slowdown

Mare Nostrum SA (ALMAR:PAR), a staffing provider based in Grenoble, France, today reported fourth-quarter revenue decreased by 13% to €40.3 million, citing a decline in temporary staffing.

For the full year 2023, the group posted revenue of €167.8 million, down 2% from the prior year.

Temporary...

UK engineering applications and vacancies plummet in December

The engineering sector has continued to feel the impact of economic uncertainty and skills shortages with vacancies and applications plummeting, according to new research from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) and Broadbean Technology.

The data showed that that permanent jobs...