The U.S. Producer Price Index for employment services rose by 1.9 percent year-over-year in March. The current level of the index is 130.3, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.This means employment services did well in March. The prices for the services of employment placement agencies, temporary help services, executive search services and professional employer organizations went…

Full-time and contingent IT hiring was less in March than what had been predicted, according to TEKsystems. However, Staffing Industry Analysts still predicts IT temp hiring will continue its forward momentum.According to the survey by TEKsystems, 35 percent of IT managers said they'd hired a full-time or contract worker. In the previous survey, 47 percent…

Many companies have begun to get rid of their HR Departments, according to The Wall Street Journal. These companies are now sending their work to HR outsourcing services that can do the job faster, more cheaply and better than a traditional department.According to the article, traditional HR departments "stifle innovation" by filling up a business's time…

A Michigan farm has come under fire for misclassifying its workers as independent contractors, according to Staffing Industry Analysts. The farm also failed to comply with record-keeping provisions regarding taxes and insurance.According to the ruling by the federal judge, the farm must treat its workers as employees, which means it must fill out the necessary tax…

Temp jobs rose in March, according to the Bureau of Labor statistics. Year-over-year, the growth was 9.6 percent. This was the biggest increase since July 2012. According to the BLS, 2.06 percent of nonfarm workers are temporary contract workers.The Wall Street Journal reports many experts believe temporary workers are here to stay due to shifts in…

The temporary services industry is becoming a way for contract workers to try jobs they haven't done before as well as to get back into a line of work they have been out of practice at for a while, according to Forbes. As the economy recovers, there is a shift of temporary work away from…

A recent survey indicates 33 percent of respondents plan to hire contract workers or temps in the second quarter, which is relatively unchanged from last year's number of 32 percent, according to Staffing Industry Analysts. Of the number of companies that planned to hire temps, 26 percent of them planned on hiring some of those…

The monthly unemployment rates by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics might be misleading, according to Henry Jia of The Staffing Stream. He believes unemployment levels are falling because many people have stopped looking for work. However, he adds this may ultimately be a boon for the temporary staffing industry. The additional load of workers who…

The final Markit U.S. Manufacturing Purchasing Manager Index (PMI) for March came in at a reading of 55.5, a slight decrease from February's mark of 57.1. Although this is a bit of a drop, a reading of over 50 indicates growth in the manufacturing industry.March's index reading is slightly lower than economists' original predictions of 56, according…

Confidence among consumers fell in March, a sign that spending may not be as robust as economists had originally predicted.The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan's final index, which gauges consumer sentiment, ended March with a reading of 80. This is slightly below February's index of 81.6, but higher than the preliminary March reading of 79.9.The March…