Benchmarks: Global VMS market spend hits $170 billion
VMS worldwide spend grew 10% in 2018 from 2017, representing the 10th consecutive year of double-digit growth.
Benchmarks: Supplier management strategies
As part of its annual Workforce Solutions Buyer Survey, SIA asks companies about their use of supplier management strategies, including recruitment process outsourcing, vendor management systems and managed service providers.
Benchmarks: Gross margin and bill rate trends
25.3% was the average gross margin among 16 publicly traded staffing firms tracked by SIA in 2018.
Benchmarks: MSP SOW spend by occupation
Information technology represents the lion’s share of the reported SOW spend (51%) going through an MSP, according to the 2019 MSP Landscape & Differentiators report by Staffing Industry Analysts.
Benchmarks: Global spend on contingent work
Companies worldwide spent US $4.5 trillion on contingent work in 2018, according to research from Staffing Industry Analysts.
Benchmarks: Do temps know about and use human cloud services to find work?
As part of its 2019 North America Temporary Worker Survey, Staffing Industry Analysts asked temporary workers to what degree they worked through freelance platforms focused on directly serving consumers such as Uber, Lyft or Handyman.
Premium research: US, Japan and UK dominate staffing agency spend
Worldwide, 14 countries accounted for 87% of the $490 billion in spend on staffing firm services.
US employment trends: IT vs. overall nonfarm
Over the past decade, employment in IT occupations has grown at a much faster rate than that of overall employment in the US.
Benchmarks: Temp occupations in the EU
There were 27.8 million temporary workers in the EU in the third quarter of 2018.
Data corner: US Temp Penetration Rate
The US temporary employment penetration rate was 2.03% in January, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
