Instead, he started doing project work for Kelly Services, the global staffing company.

Apart from Sigma, other staffing companies say that employers are cutting back on part-time and temporary workers.

But Accustaff, which has acquired 33 staffing companies in the last two years, is moving fast.

Sometimes, a permatemp employee may never actually meet anyone at the staffing company.

Manpower, the staffing company, has placed 400 refugees in temporary jobs paying roughly $8 to $12 an hour.

Ms. King said that staffing companies have been deeply affected by the bursting of the high-tech bubble.

Manpower, the world's biggest temporary staffing company, operates more than 1,130 agencies in France that place about two million people a year.

The nursing shortage is at the heart of the staffing companies' prospects, but it is also a risk.

I also regret that we did not succeed in reaching an agreement on the matter of staffing companies.

Post merger, Vedior became the fourth largest staffing company in the world.