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ZRG buys UK recruiter to bolster European growth

March 5, 2024

ZRG, the seventh-largest US executive search firm, acquired Ignata Finance Group, a UK-based executive search and finance recruitment business.

“Partnering with Ignata will enable our European growth strategy both in private equity but across our shared global customers, especially in the UK,” ZRG...


Deel acquires PaySpace, boosting global payroll capabilities

March 5, 2024

Deel Inc., a global employer-of-record platform headquartered in San Francisco, acquired PaySpace, a payroll and human resource services provider operating in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.

With the acquisition, Deel said it is the first global payroll and employer-of-record provider...


Google contract workers learn jobs have ended at city meeting, union says

March 5, 2024

Contract workers on Google’s YouTube Music Content Operations Team were laid off while trying to bargain with the company, the Alphabet Workers Union reported Feb. 29. The workers heard about their lost jobs while presenting before the Austin, Texas, City Council. However, their employer, Cognizant...


Holiday impacts US staffing hours: SIA | Bullhorn Staffing Indicator

March 5, 2024

US temp staffing hours fell 1.8% in the week ended Feb. 24 compared to the previous week, according to the latest SIA | Bullhorn Staffing Indicator report. Commercial staffing hours and professional staffing hours were down 0.9% and 5.1%, respectively.

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Coalition forms to fight Iowa legislation on bill rate cap

March 5, 2024

A coalition is forming to defeat a state bill in Iowa that would put a bill rate cap on what healthcare staffing firms can charge.

The legislation, Iowa House file 2391, would prohibit staffing firms from charging clients more than 150% of the statewide average wage for workers. Included in the 150% would...


TrueBlue closes sale of PeopleReady’s Canadian business

March 4, 2024

TrueBlue Inc. (NYSE: TBI), a Tacoma, Washington-based industrial staffing and RPO provider, today announced that it closed the previously announced sale of the Canadian staffing business of its PeopleReady division to Vertical Staffing Resources, a staffing firm headquartered in Brampton, Ontario.

The...


InfoCorvus sells staffing business to Yasha Staffing

March 4, 2024

InfoCorvus LLC, a data management solutions provider based in Austin, Texas, sold its talent acquisition division to Yasha Staffing LLC, a Richardson, Texas-based IT staffing provider. The sale will allow infoCorvus to focus on its key services, while Yasha Staffing is focused on staffing.

“InfoCorvus...


Canada reports 871,000 did gig work as main job

March 4, 2024

Canada had 871,000 gig workers in the fourth quarter of 2022 in their main job, Statistics Canada reported today. It also measured how many workers use a digital app to obtain work.

In defining gig work, Statistics Canada turned to the United National Economic Commission for Europe’s Handbook on Forms...


Positive employee experience can tamp down turnover

March 4, 2024

A positive employee experience makes workers 68% less likely to consider leaving their jobs, according to research by the Society for Human Resource Management.

It also found that employee experience is either the first- or second-highest priority of 46% of HR professionals and 36% of US workers.

In addition,...


Workers moving further away from office in ZIP code shift

March 4, 2024

Workers increasingly live far away from their office thanks to remote work in a trend called “ZIP code shift,” The New York Times reported. US workers now live roughly twice as far away from their offices as they did prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. The phenomenon is primarily driven by white-collar...