May Staffing Up 6.6% From a Year Ago
Staffing employment in May is up 6.6% from May 2011, according to the ASA Staffing Index.
The index value for May is 93, up two points from the 91 reported for April. Since the beginning of 2012, temporary and contract employment has grown 24.2%, according to the index.
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The ASA Staffing Index is reported nine days after each workweek, making it a virtual real-time measure of staffing employment trends. ASA research shows that staffing employment is a coincident economic indicator and leading employment indicator. Data for the index are gathered by ASA research partner Inavero, a market research firm based in Portland, OR.
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