Human Cloud (incl. Online Staffing)

UK Staffing Company Survey 2020: Use of talent platforms and operational automation by traditional staffing firms

21 November 2020

  • One of every six UK staffing firms partnering with or invested in a talent platform
  • Staffing firms automating many processing functions
  • Popular functions more automated on worker side than buyer side
  • 43 UK staffing companies surveyed

The Gig Economy and Talent Platform Workforce

4 November 2020

  • This report serves as a supplement to our 80-page The Gig Economy and Talent Platform Landscape report published September 4, 2020, which includes a list of largest talent platforms by gross spend, talent platform market segmentation and an appendix of 267 B2B talent platforms. The talent... More

The Gig Economy and Talent Platform Landscape

4 September 2020

  • Talent platforms or the “human cloud” are an emerging group of technology companies that connect workers to work (typically contingent) through a website or some other digital platform. 
  • In 2019, firms processed $178.5 billion in global human cloud spend. Human cloud platforms that primarily... More

The Global Gig Economy

11 June 2020

This report defines the Gig Economy and outlines the size of its various components helping you to identify;potential markets or pools of labour. 


Online Job Advertising: 2020 Market Update

27 May 2020

  • Online job advertising is an important recruitment channel for millions of employers and staffing firms. This report includes definitions of the various job advertising business models, a ranked list of the largest 50 companies by revenue, and a global market size estimate for 2019.
  • Like many... More

European Employment Barometer Quarterly Update

26 May 2020

SIA is delighted to provide this interactive research tool in collaboration with the World Employment Confederation. Our European Employment Barometer provides users with the capability to interactively drill through various levels of data – filter, sort, and download.

This tool provides an overview... More


The Promise of Platform Work: Understanding the Ecosystem

22 January 2020

  • Understanding the platform economy has been held back in part by a lack of definitional clarity. A new white paper by the World Economic Forum, The Promise of Platform Work: Understanding the Ecosystem, maps the different categories of digital work/service platform and the business-model-specific... More

Workforce Solutions Ecosystem: 2019 Update

25 November 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

Workforce Solutions Ecosystem: 2019 Update

25 November 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

European Staffing Company Survey 2019: Human cloud/online staffing, and use of automation in traditional staffing

13 November 2019

  • Nearly a third of European staffing firms reported they are partnering with or invested in a human cloud service
  • Staffing firms automating many processing functions
  • Popular functions more automated on worker side than buyer side