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Article: Staffing companies boost job growth results. (Human Resources).(8.5% more staffing employees in third quarter)(Brief Article)
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- Fairfield County Business Journal
- Article date:
- January 27, 2003
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America's staffing companies increased their hiring in the third quarter at a pace not seen since, the early 1990s, according to a national survey by the American Staffing Association (ASA). The survey said there were 8.5 percent more staffing employees in the third quarter than in the second.
Staffing firms employed an average of 2.17 million temporary and contract workers per day from July through September, 263,000 more than in the trough of the industry's recession -- the first quarter of last year.
After six consecutive quarters of contraction from October 2000 through March 2002, the third quarter marked the second consecutive quarter of growth in ...