WORKFORCE METRICS
CONTINGENT COUNTS

• Temporary workers needed for the 2010 U.S. Census: 2,200

 

• Penetration rate of temporary workers in the United States: 1.3%

 

• Percentage of CIOs who find trying an employee on a contract/temporary basis:

Valuable: 73%
Not valuable: 25%

 

• Places candidates can search for work: 400,000

• Employer job-candidate spending: $60 billion

 

• Percentage of surveyed workers who chose temporary work because:

Couldn’t find permanent/regular job: 39%
To learn new skills: 3%

• Percentage of people who plan to use staffing firms in third quarter of 2009 to:

Seek a job: 24%
Hire staff: 13%

• Planned headcount changes for 2009:

Increase: 62%
Decrease: 27%

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics via Workforce Recruiting Management e-newsletter