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| Figure 1: Staffing Employment Is a Coincident Economic Indicator and a Leading Nonfarm Employment Indicator, Particularly When the Economy Is Emerging From a Recession. |
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| Figure 2: Staffing Employment Is Usually Cyclical, Lowest at the Beginning of the Year and Highest Toward the End. The Pattern Exhibited in 2007 Was Most Typical. The 2010 Pattern Was Similar, But the Rate of Growth Was Much Stronger Than Usual. |
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| Figure 3: The 2007–09 Great Recession Was Deeper Than the Previous 10 Recessions Since World War II—At Its Lowest Point, Employment Fell by 6.3%. |
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| Figure 4: In the 2007–09 Great Recession, U.S. Output Fell by 5.1%, Deeper Than Any of the Previous 10 Postwar Recessions—And Recovery Has Taken Longer, Too. |
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| Figure 5: GDP Resumed Growth in the Third Quarter of 2009, But Slowed in the First Half of 2011 With Economists Forecasting Only Modest Growth Through 2012. |
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| Figure 6: The Lag Time Between When Recessions End and Nonfarm Employment Returns to Its Prerecession Level Has Been Increasing Sharply After Recent Recessions. If the 2011 Pace of Job Growth Were to Continue, Nonfarm Employment Would Return to Its 2007 Peak at the End of 2016. |
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| Figure 7: Consumer Spending on Discretionary Services—Such as Recreation, Transportation, Food Services, and Household Utilities—Fell Nearly 8.5% During the Great Recession, More Than Three Times as Much as the Previous Three Recessions. |
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| Figure 8: From the End of the Great Recession Through the End of 2010, U.S. Staffing Firms Added More than 766,000 Jobs—From a Low of 2.05 Million in 2Q09 to 2.81 Million in 4Q10. |
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| Figure 9: In 2007, Before the Great Recession, Staffing Employment Accounted for 2.3% of the Nonfarm Work Force. In 2009, it Dropped to 1.7%. In 2010, the Proportion Rebounded to 2.0%. |
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| Figure 10: America's Staffing Companies Hired 9.7 Million Employees Over the Course of 2010—4.1% More Than in the Prior Year. |
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| Figure 11: The Average Staffing Employee Works Just Over Three Months. Employment Tenure in 2010 Increased to 13.8 Weeks While Turnover Dropped to 277%. |
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| Figure 12: Search and Placement Employment Totaled 235,500 in 2010, Up 3.6% From Its 2009 Low. |
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| Figure 13: Temporary and Contract Staffing Sales Increased by 21.3% in 2010. |
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| Figure 14: Search and Placement Sales Increased by 22.8% in 2010. |
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| Figure 15: Total Staffing and Recruiting Industry Sales—Including Temporary and Contract, and Search and Placement—Increased by 21.5% in 2010. |
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| Figure 16: Room to Grow: Nine Out of 10 Staffing Employees Would Refer a Friend or Relative to Work as a Temporary or Contract Employee, and They Are Far More Satisfied With Their Job and Their Employer Than Employees in the Overall U.S. Work Force. |
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Figure 17: Eight Out of 10 Temporary and Contract Employees Work Full Time, About the Same Proportion as in the Overall U.S. Work Force. |
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| Figure 18: Temporary and Contract Employees Work in All Occupations. |
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Figure 19: U.S. Businesses Turn to Staffing Firms to Fill Work Force Gaps, Augment Their Own Staff, and Find New Employees. |
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| Figure 20: Businesses Tap a Full Range of Talent From Staffing Companies. |
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Figure 21: Room to Grow: On Average, Only 15% of U.S. Businesses Use Staffing Services in a Given Year. The Bigger the Business, the More Likely It's a Staffing Client. |
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| Figure 22: In a 2011 Survey of 2,000 Employers, Most Foresee a More Flexible Labor Force, and One-Third Will Use More Temporary or Contract Workers. |
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Figure 23: Employment Services—Mostly Staffing—Expected to Be Among Top Job-Growth Industries. |
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