ZeroChaos names CEO, COO

ZeroChaos promoted Michael Werblun to chief executive officer and Matthew Levine to chief operating officer, effective May 10. ZeroChaos provides VMS and MSP services as well as independent contractor compliance and risk management, RPO, statement-of-work solutions and other services.

Werblun replaces...

US job openings edge up in March but hiring down 4%

The number of US job openings in March edged up 2.7% from February to almost 5.8 million, according to seasonally adjusted numbers released today by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, the number of hires fell 4.0% from February, which had posted the highest level since 2006.

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Command Center Q1 revenue up 10% outside North Dakota

Command Center Inc. (OTC: CCNI) reported revenue edged up 0.5% year over year in the first quarter to $19.1 million.

Revenue from branches outside North Dakota rose 10% compared to the year-ago period, but a 43% decline from the company’s North Dakota branches offset the increase. North Dakota is economically...

Team Health Q1 net revenue rises 35.1% with acquisitions

Team Health Holdings Inc. (NYSE: TMH), a clinical outsourcing provider in healthcare, reported first-quarter net revenue rose 35.1% to $1.14 billion. Team Health operates healthcare staffing firm D&Y among its other business operations.

TeamHealth acquired IPC Healthcare Inc., a national acute hospitalist...

Upwork price change: 'Greedy grab’ or ‘right decision’? — Staffing quote of the week

“The message I’d like to get out is it’s a greedy grab by them,” Jacqueline Windh, a freelance writer from Vancouver Island, Canada, told Forbes regarding Upwork’s decision to raise the fees some freelancers pay to find work through the online staffing provider.

“What we’ve done is...

Contract watch: Alexander Mann’s total talent acquisition deal and more

A number of staffing deals have been publicly announced since mid-April, including Alexander Mann Solutions’ signing of one of the few total talent acquisition contracts that have been publicly announced. The five-year total talent acquisition deal is with Verifone, a global provider of point-of-sale...

First-quarter revenue falls at US publicly held job board operators

First-quarter revenue shrunk at publicly held US job board operators.

At Monster Worldwide Inc. (NYSE: MWW), revenue fell 8.7% in the first quarter to $157.8 million; however, the decline was 7% when measured in constant currency.

“While results in our North America business in the first quarter were...

Employment trends index rebounds in April

The Conference Board’s US employment trends index rose in April to a reading of 128.28 from March’s downwardly revised reading of 126.42. The April reading is up 1.4% from the same month a year ago.  

“Despite the April bounce back in the employment trends index, its growth has slowed...

Canada’s GDP to edge up 1.6% in 2016

Canada’s economy is expected to grow by just 1.6% in 2016 as the decline in commodity prices, subpar global economic growth and overstretched Canadian consumers will limit Canada’s real GDP growth, according to The Conference Board of Canada’s Canadian Outlook-Spring 2016. While modest, this is...

National Nurses Week is this week

National Nurses Week began Friday and continues through May 12, the American Nurses Association announced. The theme for the week is “Culture of safety — It starts with you.”

“Injuries to nurses and other health care professionals should not be tolerated as just ‘part of the job,’” said...