Small Business Labs
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
The Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) is a research and industry analyst firm that focuses on contingent work. Their clients are staffing industry firms and corporations that employ contingent and/or temporary workers. staffing industry forecast. doesn't sound like much, the U.S. While 3.1%
Small Business Labs
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
The NY Times article The Rise of Permanent Temp Economy provides an interesting look at the history of temporary work in America. The author argues the temp industry in America was created by exploiting gender stereotypes in the 1950s and 1960s. And I agree many temp jobs are bad. .
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Small Business Labs
JULY 1, 2013
ProPublica's The Expendables: How the Temps Who Power Corporate Giants are Getting Crushed covers the dark side of temporary work. Key quote on the life of low paid temps: Many get by on minimum wage, renting rooms in rundown houses, eating dinners of beans and potatoes, and surviving on food banks and taxpayer-funded health care.
Small Business Labs
JANUARY 7, 2016
These are good times for the temporary staffing industry. As the American Staffing Association chart below shows, the industry has been booming since the steep declines caused by the Great Recession. 2015 was another record setting year and pretty much everyone in the staffing industry is predicting good times ahead.
Success
DECEMBER 15, 2023
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Success
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
We have a whole generation of millennials and college grads who have come out of college seeing how their parents were perhaps treated in 2008 and are choosing income security over job security” by freelancing, temping and so forth. Plus, if your industry hits the skids, you’d better have some options. Weston couldn’t agree more.
Small Business Labs
OCTOBER 17, 2012
Regular readers know we believe the number of independent workers (freelancers, temps, etc.) Scale of some form is still a key competitive factor in most industries, which is why the Global Giants continue to grow. Don't get us wrong. is going to continue to grow. Our reasons are: 1. will be comprised of independent workers.
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