Silicon Valley wages drop for all except highest-paying jobs (The Mercury News)

Inflation-adjusted wages for employees in the middle of Silicon Valley’s income ladder declined between 12% and 14% over the past 20 years, The (San Jose, Calif.) Mercury News reported. According to a study from UC Santa Cruz’s Everett Program for Technology and Social Change and the labor...

PDS Tech sells to Paris-based AKKA

PDS Tech Inc., which ranks No. 63 on SIA’s list of largest US staffing firms, was acquired by AKKA, a Paris-based publicly traded firm.

AKKA has also appointed Cash Nickerson as chairman of its North American business unit. Nickerson had served at Irving, Texas-based PDS Tech as president and CFO for...

Harvey Nash appoints president of technology solutions

Harvey Nash Group plc, a UK-based staffing provider with US operations, named Anna Frazzetto president of technology solutions in North America and Asia Pacific. Frazzetto will also maintain her role as chief digital technology officer, leading digital solutions, outsourcing and offshoring...

Employers plan 17% increase in college hiring; best outlook since 2007

US employers plan to hire 16.6% more college grads from the class of 2019 than they did from the prior year’s class, according to the fall Job Outlook 2019 survey released by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. This year marks the best initial hiring outlook since the class of 2007...

Gig firms announce investments

PICKUP, a human cloud provider of last-mile delivery services, closed a $5 million funding round and mobile workforce management platform Shyft Technologies raised $6.5 million in Series A funding.

PICKUP’s funding round was led by TDF Ventures and Noro-Moseley Partners; Engage, an Atlanta-based venture...

Hawaii posts lowest unemployment rate among states at 2.3% in October

Hawaii posted the lowest unemployment rate among all states in October at 2.3%, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Iowa was next at 2.4% on a seasonally adjusted basis, followed by New Hampshire at 2.6%.

Alaska recorded the highest jobless rate among all states at 6.4% in October.

Texas...

People: CHG Healthcare, Malone, PTS Advance, Morisey-Dart and more

CHG Healthcare, the second-largest healthcare staffing firm in the US, named Leslie Snavely as chief digital officer, a new position within the firm. Snavely joined CHG in 2010 and most recently was senior VP of marketing and product management; she has also led the company’s corporate business development...

Addressing unfair contract clauses (Staffing Industry Review)

Many staffing firms have experienced financial abuses inflicted on them by clients or VMS/MSP agents, attorney George Reardon writes in the November/December issue of Staffing Industry Review magazine. Originally lifted from traditional purchasing contracts, these ideas are now widespread in staffing...

Uber revenue up 38% but losses widen in third quarter

Uber Technologies Inc. on Wednesday released financials that show revenue growth slowed and the human cloud firm’s loss exceeded $1 billion in the third quarter. The ride-sharing company also announced a new rewards program following a similar move by its competitor, Lyft.

Revenue growth of 38% in the...

Calian’s revenue up 9% in fiscal Q4 on growth in business and technology division

Calian Group Ltd. (TSX: CGY) reported revenue rose 8.9% in its fiscal fourth quarter ended Sept. 30. Revenue growth came in the company’s business segment that includes staffing.