Temp Agencies Create New Jobs at Five Times the National Pace
As a footnote to the monthly employment report last week, let’s take a look at temporary workers, shall we? Apparently, as pointed out by a piece on ERE, more workers are employed as temps right now since 2000!
Here’s how it breaks down: As per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2,679,800 people worked as temps in May. Plus, during the past year there’s an average of 15,500 new temp hires on a monthly basis. Temporary workers as a percentage of the overall of employed population rose to 1.98 percent.
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