May 6, 2021 IT Staffing Report Explore SIA recently published its annual Merger & Acquisition Trends: North America 2021 Update. The report tracks the number of transactions each year, both in aggregate and by staffing segment. IT staffing not only exhibits resilience in business activity, but M&A activity as well Kevin Chen | May 4, 2021 SIA recently published its annual Merger & Acquisition Trends: North America 2021 Update, which tracks the number of transactions each year, both in aggregate and by staffing segment. In 2020, SIA identified 69 publicly announced staffing transactions in North America.Click to find out more Disys acquires Signature Consultants; deal merges two of the largest IT staffing firms May 4, 2021 Digital Intelligence Systems LLC is acquiring Signature Consultants LLC in a deal announced April 7. Disys ranks as the 16th-largest US IT staffing provider while Signature ranks as the 15th-largest. The combined company will have annual revenue of $860 million with plans calling for both businesses to maintain their respective brands.Disys' current CEO, Mahfuz Ahmed, will serve as CEO of the combined company.Click to find out more Apple to add 20,000 jobs in US over next five years May 4, 2021 Apple Inc.Click to find out more Kelly Services acquires IT staffing provider Softworld for $215 million May 4, 2021 Kelly Services Inc. (NASDAQ: KELYA, KELYB) acquired Softworld Inc., an IT staffing and workforce solutions firm headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, for a base purchase price of $215.0 million. The deal closed on April 5.The acquisition helps round out Kelly's offering in the IT space, further strengthening the company's abilities in those areas, said Hugo Malan, president of Kelly Science, Engineering and Technology.Click to find out more TechServe Alliance: IT employment returning to pre-Covid levels by mid-June May 4, 2021 IT employment in the US increased by 0.39% month over month in March to a total of more than 5.3 million jobs, according to the TechServe Alliance, a trade association of the IT and engineering staffing and solutions industry.Click to find out more Blockchain tech skills post fastest growth in demand: Freelancer.com’s ‘Fast 50’ list May 4, 2021 Blockchain technology skills posted the fastest growth in demand, according to Freelancer.com's "Fast 50" report for the first quarter. The online staffing platform reported the number of blockchain technology jobs on its site rose 59% since the fourth quarter to a total of 2,207 jobs.Freelancer.com noted the increase in the price of bitcoin and the trend in trading of NFTs (nonfungible tokens) may have driven growth.Click to find out more Adecco’s tech recruitment platform Hired to absorb Vettery brand May 4, 2021 Hired announced that it has absorbed Vettery into its operations; both firms are owned by The Adecco Group. Hired is a San Francisco-based online recruitment platform focused on matching technology talent with jobs; it was acquired by Adecco last November. Vettery is also an online recruitment platform; it was acquired by Adecco in 2018.Click to find out more How tech can answer outstanding pandemic questions and get us back to the office — The Staffing Stream May 4, 2021Click to find out more People: The Intersect Group, Soltech, Onward Search and more May 5, 2021 The Intersect Group, an Atlanta-based staffing firm in the IT and finance/accounting space, appointed Joe Myers to the CEO role.Click to find out more The ettain approach May 5, 2021Click to find out more