Recent Updates
Europe Staffing Company Survey 2016: Benchmark metrics -- temps/branch, temps/internal staff, internal staff/branch, job order productivity ratios, time-to-fill
27 March 2017
- Seven benchmark ratios measured
- Staff ratios and job order productivity
- Over sixty staffing firms surveyed
Europe Staffing Company Survey 2016: Internal Staff and Temporary Worker Satisfaction Surveys
24 March 2017
- Most staffing firms survey internal staff and/or temps
- Internally-generated satisfaction surveys most common
- 45 European staffing firms surveyed
Europe Staffing Company Survey 2016: Temp-to-hire conversion rates, fees, and policies; Direct hire fees
23 March 2017
- Median direct hire fee: 20%
- Median temp-to-hire conversion fee: 15%
- 64% of staffing firms forego conversion fee after specified temp tenure
Successful IT Recruiting Strategies
21 March 2017
- IT professionals are in short supply in most developed economies, creating recruiting challenges
- Sourcing methods for tech talent must be adapted to the current environment
- People and processes in your recruiting function should be analyzed to drive efficiency and effectiveness
Workforce Solutions Buyers Survey 2016 - Europe - Consolidated Report
21 March 2017
- Contains complete 2016 Workforce Solutions Buyers Survey Report
- Also includes relevant findings from the 2013-2015 Buyers Survey Reports
- 258 pages in total
Workforce Solutions Buyers Survey 2016: Contingent Share of Workforce
16 March 2017
- Contingent share of workforce among large buyers of workforce solutions
- Statistics by company size, industry, primary skill set purchased, use of VMS/MSP
- Buyers 2 year and 10 year plans for different kinds of contingent work
Workforce Solutions Buyers Survey 2016: Satisfaction with staffing supplier/VMS/MSP and advice to staffing firms
15 March 2017
- Buyers give net promoter scores of -14%, -12% and -8% to their primary staffing supplier, VMS and MSP, respectively
- Trends in the net promoter score over the past few years range from mixed to declining.
- Cost, quality, efficiency and risk were all broadly rated as at least moderately important... More
Workforce Solutions Buyers Survey 2016 - Strategies to mitigate contingent workforce legal risk
12 March 2017
- Three most used strategies: carrying out due diligence on suppliers’ levels of compliance, obtaining indemnities from suppliers, and limiting assignment lengths
- Companies that use VMS more likely to pursue obtaining indemnities from suppliers
Workforce Solutions Buyers Survey 2016 - Performance rating of contingent workforce program
10 March 2017
- 78% of respondents rated the performance of their contingent workforce program as excellent, above average, or average
- Companies using a VMS were more likely to rate their program as above average or excellent
Workforce Solutions Buyers Survey - Top priorities for CW programs
9 March 2017
- The most commonly selected top priorities for contingent workforce programs were global integration, reducing/controlling costs, and providing excellent customer service
- Buyers of commercial staffing were more likely than buyers of professional staffing to select reducing/controlling costs