April 5, 2018
SIA recently released its North American Staffing Mergers & Acquisitions 2018 Update report which tracks annual transactions, both in aggregate and by individual staffing segment. The number of publicly announced staffing M&A transactions in North America jumped 28% year-over-year from 69 in 2016 to 88 in 2017.
IT staffing M&A activity remains steady
3 April 2018
SIA recently released its North American Staffing Mergers & Acquisitions 2018 Update report which tracks annual transactions, both in aggregate and by individual staffing segment. The number of publicly announced staffing M&A transactions in North America jumped 28% year-over-year from 69 in... More
On Assignment changes name to ASGN after closing $775M acquisition of ECS
3 April 2018
Professional staffing firm ASGN Inc. (NYSE: ASGN) – formerly operating as On Assignment – completed its $775 million acquisition of government services contractor ECS Federal LLC. Concurrent with the acquisition, On Assignment changed its name to ASGN Inc. to better reflect the combined company’s... More
Yoh expands IT specialty staffing practice with acquisition of German firm GECO Deutschland
3 April 2018
Technology staffing firm Yoh acquired GECO Deutschland, a Hamburg, Germany-based specialty IT recruitment firm. Yoh reported the acquisition expands its IT specialty staffing practice area internationally.
Volt revenue falls in fiscal Q1; firm hires former Randstad exec as president of Volt Workforce Solutions
3 April 2018
Volt Information Sciences Inc. (NYSE MKT: VISI) reported net revenue fell 19.1% in its fiscal first quarter ended Jan. 28. And in a conference call with investors, Volt said it hired former Randstad exec Linda Perneau as president of Volt Workforce Solutions, effective May 26.
MarTech CMOs, digital marketing VPs highest paid; UX designer/developers, marketing automation managers most in-demand
3 April 2018
Chief marketing officer and VP of digital marketing rank as the highest-paying marketing technology jobs, according to Mondo, a New York-based IT and digital marketing staffing provider.
Infosys delisting shares from Paris and London stock exchanges but stays on NYSE
3 April 2018
Infosys (NYSE: INFY), a global IT services and outsourcing provider, in March announced it intends to voluntarily delist its American Depositary Shares from the Euronext Paris and Euronext London stock exchanges.
H-1B filing period opens
3 April 2018
The filing period for H-1B visas — temporary work visas for highly skilled foreign workers — began Monday for the upcoming 2019 federal fiscal year.
People: Genuent, MDI, Frank Recruitment Group and more
3 April 2018
Several IT staffing firms announced personnel changes and additions.