The latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey demonstrates hiring confidence is up. In a survey of over 18,000 employers, 22 percent expect to increase their staff levels for the third quarter of 2014. Seventy-one percent expect to keep their staffing at the same level, and only 7 percent either don't know what they're going to do…

Impact Management Services, a staffing firm, found it was losing money as it became larger, according to Crain's Detroit Magazine.  It grew difficult from an HR perspective to keep track of employees and make sure they were getting paid."The complexities continued to mount. We were dedicating tremendous resources and effort to solve issues there and…

Nearly half of U.S. unemployed workers have stopped looking for work, according to a survey by Express Employment Professionals, reported by Staffing Industry Analysts. Those who have given up on finding work could try again with a temporary job. Temporary work would let unemployed people get back on their feet with jobs that give them…

The number of temporary workers is on the rise, according to the Associated Press. They account for 2.3 percent of all workers in the labor force, and do a variety of tasks. Some of the jobs that temps do include janitorial work, home-care and nursing, along with freelance photography and computer programming. Many work under contracts with…

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported there were 4.0 million job openings in March, which is a decline of 2.7 percent from February. The number of total hires declined by 1.6 percent month-over-month. However, the number of job openings in March of 2013 was only 3.88 million, for a total gain of about 3.5 percent year-over-year.Additionally,…

The U.S. Department of Labor recently sued a hotel in Columbus, Ohio, seeking back wages and liquidated damages for hotel staff whose hours, wages and overtime were improperly handled, according to Staffing Industry Analysts. Such an event came about because the management company, called Darpan, did not properly log hours for the workers. If the…

Many at the annual Staffing Industry Analysts' Executive Forum are showing confidence in the staffing industry, according to Leslie Vickrey, writing for The Staffing Stream. She writes that the staffing industry, particularly temporary staffing, is in the midst of a positive economic cycle."Historically speaking, we likely have another two to four years of strong growth before…

A recent study by Monster Worldwide found 42 percent of respondents have left a job due to stress in the workplace. Additionally, 35 percent of respondents have considered changing jobs because of job stress. Twenty-three percent say they have never changed a job for this reason."Workplace stress can come from any part of a job, and…

According to Staffing Industry Analysts, margins in the business world have declined significantly over the past decade due to the use of vendor management systems (VMS). In other words, staffing has made the world run more efficiently than it has before, due to the benefits of temporary workers. Such benefits include flexibility to grow and…

The Northern Nevada Chamber of Commerce will tentatively introduce a newly created Professional Employer Organization to act as its employer of record, notes Northern Nevada Business Weekly. The news source adds that a series of meetings last week between the NNCC and its potential PEO, Applied Chamber Solutions, discussed the proposal. Jim Annis, president and…