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Spherion Employee Confidence Index shows that in California, the overall employee confidence rebounds as more workers feel confident in the future of their current employer; in Texas, worker confidence shows an overall dip as concerns about the economy and job market grow; Florida reports overall worker confidence edges upward as more workers are likely to look for new jobs; Ohio reports employee confidence inches up as fewer workers are likely to look for new jobs; and in New York, overall employee confidence increases as more workers gain confidence in the future of employer.
Staffing Firms
According to Staffing Industry Analysts,119 staffing companies reported revenues of $100 million or more in U.S. staffing revenues in 2007.
Aggregate revenue for the largest companies totaled $65.7 billion. For these largest companies, the median rate of growth was 7.7% in 2007, in comparison to growth from the total industry of 3.7% in 2007. Proving that being a Corporate Member of Staffing Industry Analysts' services has benefits, Corporate Members' growth out paced non-Corporate Members by 14%.
The top 10 companies include:
2007 (2006) Ranking U.S. Revenue
1 (1) Allegis Group $5.28 B
2 (2) Adecco SA $4.48 B
3 (5) Robert Half $3.51 B
4 (3) Kelly Services $3.45 B
5 (4) Manpower $2.99 B
6 (7) Spherion Corp $1.91 B
7 (6) Volt Information $1.85 B
8 (8) Randstad Holding $1.66 B
9 (9) Express Employment $1.57 B
10 (10) Administaff, Inc. $1.57 B
YumYumjobs.com announces the release of the its video resume database. This one stop resource center for restaurants, night clubs, bars and hotels allows employers and managers to streamline the hiring process and allows job seekers a more efficient way of promoting themselves.
EffortlessHR.com is a human resource website allowing business owners to search a comprehensive list of federal and state laws, a how-to guide, required posters, and much more.
HireRight, an on-demand employment background screening firm, releases the 2008 HireRight Background Screening Benchmarking Report. This report addresses the key factors influencing employment screening programs today, the scope of their screening programs, the methods they use in operating their screening programs and the types of background checks they most commonly perform.
Newly launched DCAreaJobs.com, is the first of several local and industry-specific career sites to be developed and released throughout the course of 2008. Powered by Job.com, the site offers listings for job seekers in Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. Jobs posted on Job.com will automatically be cross-posted to DCAreaJobs.com, free of charge, as an additional way to gain visibility and connect with qualified, local candidates.
eQuest Inc., a job-posting delivery service, completed an agreement with Main Sequence Technologies Inc., the provider of PCRecruiter recruiting technology, to offer technically integrated eQuest services to Main Sequence customers.
Survey Says
Employers Add Benefits to Help Employees with Rising Gas Costs.
More employers are offering telecommuting, flexible schedules, and other benefits to help employees offset the costs of rising gas prices, but few employers are increasing pay to help employees, according to a survey by the Society for Human Resource Management.
The survey found that only 2 percent of respondents said they offered a cost of living raise prompted by gas prices, or stipends to employees with long commutes.
Instead, employers are offering new benefits, and more employees are taking advantage of benefits they already had. The survey found that the most common tactic (42 percent, up from 13 percent in 2007) by employers was to raise the mileage reimbursement to the IRS maximum.
Other benefits include offering a flexible work schedule (26 percent), telecommuting (18 percent), public transportation discounts (14 percents), and rewarding employee performance with a gas card (14 percent).
"Rising gas prices are cutting into everyone's personal budgets, so employees are taking a closer look at benefits such as compressed work weeks and public transportation discounts to reduce their costs," said Susan R. Meisinger, president and CEO of SHRM. "In addition, employers are offering extra help as a tool to retain employees and improve employee morale."
The survey found that 12 percent of employers help employees organize carpools, and 7 percent offer priority parking to employees who carpool. One percent of respondents said they offer a monetary incentive for employees to buy hybrid cars.