Human Cloud (incl. Online Staffing)

Temporary Staffing Platform Update

14 May 2021

  • Overview of the market with a look at trends, market size, primary providers and viewpoints from staffing firms.
  • Included is a suitability analysis examining market attributes most conducive to temporary staffing platforms.
  • Directories of 60 independent temporary staffing platforms, 26 staffing... More

Introduction to Hiring Platforms

15 December 2020

  • Hiring Platforms are an emerging business model and SIA has identified fewer than 50 companies providing these services.
  • Hiring Platforms provide automated hiring solutions via a curated database of candidates who are registered with the platform and have been interviewed, quality assured or vetted... More

Workforce Solutions Ecosystem: 2020 Update

30 November 2020

  • This report is the latest update to SIA'S Workforce Solutions Ecosystem
  • Workforce Solutions are third-party products and services relating to the sourcing, engagement and development of employed and non-employed (including contingent) workers
  • Classifies all products and services that compromise... More

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

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

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

The Gig Economy and Human Cloud Landscape: 2019 Update

3 September 2019

  • Human cloud reached a scale of $126.3 billion in global spend in 2018
  • Human cloud is a subsegment of the gig economy including firms that match workers to work through an online/digital platform
  • This comprehensive report (70 pages) covers this rapidly evolving marketplace
  • Included are market... More