Staffing trends

Global staffing market has experienced significant growth in recent years driven by the need for employment flexibility by both employers and employees.

• Skills shortages across all job categories
• Increasing trend for companies to outsource services in order to focus on core competence
• Liberalization of national labor markets (e.g. Spain, Italy, Japan)
• Development of specialist staffing services in more professional industry sectors
• Consolidation of staffing companies in search of scale and efficiencies
• Development of complementary services in order to provide employers with a 'one-stop shop' for all their human resources requirements
• Internationalization of job market (cross border placements)
• Improving status of temporary workers
• Increasing proportion of women entering the workforce
• Growth of online recruitment via the internet
• Development of national and international staffing contracts with large multinational employers