No Uber for other industries — Staffing quote of the week

“While we’ve seen incredible attempts at the Uber of dog walking or the Uber for massages, we’re not seeing a level of participation [by workers] that would suggest these platforms are starting to disrupt many industries,” Katharine Abraham told The Washington Post. Abraham is a professor at...

More than half of staffing firms provide training to temp workers: SIA

More than half of staffing agencies offer some training to temporary workers, according to Staffing Industry Analysts’ new report, North America Staffing Company Survey 2018: Training Options Offered to Temporary Workers. Free online training, the most common method provided, is offered by 40% of staffing...

Upwork sets IPO price range, market value of firm could be up to $1.3 billion

Upwork, the largest B2B human cloud firm, set a price range for shares in its initial public offering of between $10 and $12, according to a filing on Friday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The IPO would raise $135.0 million at the midpoint of the range. Renaissance Capital reported Upwork...

Alexander Mann taps former Pontoon exec for leadership roles

Alexander Mann Solutions, a London-based provider of RPO and MSP services, appointed Michael Wachholz as president of the Americas and the global head of contingent workforce solutions.

Wachholz previously was president of Adecco’s Pontoon business, which also provides MSP and RPO services. Wachholz...

Recruiter.com to get new owner in all-stock deal

Truli Technologies Inc. (OTC: TRLI) signed a letter of intent to acquire Recruiter.com Inc., a website based in Bristol, Conn., that links job seekers, recruiters and employers. Truli plans to change its name to Recruiter.com and update its ticker symbol once the deal is complete.

Truli is a New York-based...

Singapore issues $9.5 million fine to human cloud firms Uber and Grab

Human cloud, ride-sharing firms Uber and Grab were fined S$13.0 million (US$9.5 million) by the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore. The fine comes after Uber’s sale of its Southeast Asian business to Grab in March.

According to the commission, the transaction led to substantial lessening...

Bad commutes may drive professionals to leave jobs: Robert Half

The drive to work may be driving some professionals to quit, suggests new research released today by Robert Half. According to the research, 23% of employees have left a job because of a bad commute.

Among workers in the 28 US cities surveyed, respondents in Chicago, Miami, New York and San Francisco...

Service-sector job creation strongest since May 2015, despite output growth deceleration

The rate of job creation in the service economy during September was the strongest since May 2015, according to a report by IHS Markit, a London-based provider of market analytics. Meanwhile, manufacturing jobs numbers expanded, but at the weakest pace in 13 months.

Even with the job creation, overall...

Canadian staffing index flat in August

The Canadian staffing index, which measures staffing activity in Canada, was unchanged in August on a year-over-year basis at a reading of 114.

“August marks the fifth month of flat to declining growth in the staffing index,” said Maxim Kupfer, research analyst at Staffing Industry Analysts....

Hawaii posts lowest jobless rate in August; four states hit record lows

Hawaii posted the lowest unemployment rate among all states in August at 2.1%, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Iowa was next at 2.5% on a seasonally adjusted basis, followed by North Dakota at 2.6%.

Alaska recorded the highest jobless rate among all states at 6.7% in August.

The BLS reported...