The ASA Staffing Index: Timely Employment Trend Info for TN Employers
How’s business? The ASA Staffing Index can help you answer this question. The ASA Staffing Index, developed by the American Staffing Association, provides a current measure of staffing industry employment trends. Published weekly, the index estimates the weekly changes in the number of people employed in temporary and contract work. Index numbers are reported just […]
Experts Look to the Staffing Industry for Signs of Recovery
A recent Reuters article by Kristina Cooke shares some good news: “The pace of temporary job creation after the most recent recession – an average of about 25,000 per month – has been faster than the past two, potentially a good sign for a labor market struggling with a jobless rate of 9 percent.” This […]
Benefits of Temporary Staffing During a Slow Economic Recovery
As our economy struggles to gain steam once again, businesses are forced to make tough choices regarding their workforces. Skyrocketing employment costs such as insurance, overtime, payroll taxes, healthcare and other benefits, coupled with the uncertainty of just how long a recovery will take, are placing enormous pressure on employers to run lean. Here are just a […]
