The Conference Board's Employment Trends Index increased in June. It reads119.62 points, which is an increase from 119.03 points in May. This is a 6.3 percent gain year over year.The percentage of firms with positions they were unable to fill rose. Additionally, Real manufacturing and trade sales have risen, along with industrial production. The number of temps…

Employment is on the rise, both in the staffing sector and in business in general, according to the latest report by the Department of Labor. According to the latest report, temporary help services jobs rose by 10,100 in June. The penetration rate for temporary workers, according to Staffing Industry Analysts, reached 2.07 percent. This means that…

Employee confidence is at a seven-year high, according to research by Randstad, a U.S. recruiting company.  The firm recently did a survey that indicates its employee confidence index reached 46.7, an increase of 2.1 points from last month. Workers' confidence in their personal employment situations increased to 69.4 from 66.4, the highest level it has been since…

A recent survey by Sure Payroll indicates 77 percent of small-business owners expect to grow in the second half of the year. This is promising because small businesses can take advantage of their expansion to try out new methods of hiring, such as using an employer of record to hire temporary workers who would do…

The latest trend in HR and staffing technology will be wearable computers, according to Fistful of Talent. These devices can be designed to help temporary workers do specific jobs in the workplace and keep the company lean by providing real-time support a full-time staffer would normally have to offer.In other words, temporary workers can go…

Highlighting the benefits of hiring a temporary worker through an employer of record, Missoula County agreed to pay former employees of its health center a total of $189,000 to settle wrongful discharge lawsuits, according to the Missoulian. Missoula County, located in Montana, was forced to pay after lawyers alleged the health center's executive director Kim…

An online temporary services company called Elance-oDesk lives by its mission of creating a workforce of freelancers. Elance-oDesk has 240 full-time employees and 500 temporary workers, according to Quartz Magazine."They choose how many hours they work, and they decide when," Elance-oDesk CEO Fabio Rosati told Quartz. "As a result, we are a very small company…

The National Restaurant Association's May 2014 Tracking Survey reports that job growth for restaurants is increasing. Sales for all restaurants totaled $683.4 billion in revenue. Currently, there are 13.5 million employed in the restaurant business. Additionally, 25 percent of restaurant owners say they plan to employ more people in the next six months. Only 10…

Temporary workers are on the rise, according to the latest study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Temp jobs rose by approximately 14,300 in May for a total of nearly 2.9 million in total. The penetration rate for temporary jobs was 2.07 percent in May. In April, the penetration rate was 2.06 percent. Unemployment stood at…

Employment in the U.S. rose by 179,000 jobs in May, according to Automatic Data Processing's national employment report. The three month average, according to Staffing Industry Analysts, has been 198,000 per month.Year over year, May has seen higher growth, but the number of jobs added in April was 215,000."Job growth moderated in May," said Mark…