July/August 2019

Last month, I attended my daughter's college commencement, which happened to be at the halfway mark of my company's financial year - as well as the point when I typically initiate an assessment of the progress my team and I are making toward our annual goals.

When leading business transformation in this fast-paced world, it would be easy to draw only on experience and intuition and focus only on hard financial outcomes and then rush toward them.

For a moment, forget that you've been in the staffing industry for years and that, as a managed service provider to contingent workforce programs, you can speak the language fluently, using terminology like "IC vetting," "staff augmentation" and "statement of work." Forget that you understand thoroughly how to calculate bill rates and markups.

With a record-low unemployment rate and a continued skills shortage, US employers are having to increasingly rely on the global talent pool to fill highly skilled positions. US universities and the contingent workforce have historically provided a steady pipeline of highly skilled workers to meet employers' needs.

Nevada employers cannot refuse to hire a job applicant who fails a drug test for marijuana under a new law signed by Gov. Stephen F. Sisola in June, which takes effect in 2020.

Meet the rising stars in the workforce solutions ecosystem. The 40 Under 40, North America, class of 2019 is an eclectic group of leaders motivated to grow the industry - they see possibilities that they want to turn into business realities to generate revenue.

In an ongoing series, Staffing Industry Review features excerpts from a 2019 Executive Forum session based on SIA President Barry Asin's and Charted Path founder Mike Cleland's book, Breaking Through: Leadership Disciplines from Top-Performing Staffing Firms, which captured the stories of staffing industry executives whose companies have reached th

DARQ technologies - a collective acronym for distributed ledger technology, artificial intelligence, extended reality and quantum computing - will have a transformational or extensive impact on their organizations, according to 68% of healthcare executives surveyed by Accenture.