{"id":11487,"date":"2023-03-04T01:49:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T01:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/?p=11487"},"modified":"2023-03-03T14:51:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T14:51:19","slug":"staffing-employment-eases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/staffing-employment-eases\/","title":{"rendered":"Staffing Employment Eases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staffing employment eased for a third straight week, Feb. 13-19, with the ASA Staffing Index decreasing by 0.9% to a rounded value of 100.<\/p>\n<p>Some staffing companies mentioned temporary-to-permanent conversions and seasonal business fluctuations as barriers preventing further growth.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Staffing jobs were 4.5% below the same week last year.<\/li>\n<li>New starts in the seventh week of the year decreased by 1.3% from the prior week.<\/li>\n<li>About a third of staffing companies (35%) reported gains in new assignments week to week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ASA Staffing Index four-week moving average nudged down from the prior week to a rounded value of 101.4, and temporary and contract staffing employment for the four weeks ending Feb. 19 was 3.2% lower than the same period in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStaffing employment is off to a slower start in 2023 than in 2022, though it remains stronger than at this point in any year before that,\u201d said Tim Hulley, ASA assistant director of research.<\/p>\n<p>This week, will be used in the February monthly employment situation report scheduled to be issued by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on March 10.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11488\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11488\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11488\" src=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/254125606_4745273775529572_1844451582164686644_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/254125606_4745273775529572_1844451582164686644_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/254125606_4745273775529572_1844451582164686644_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/254125606_4745273775529572_1844451582164686644_n-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/254125606_4745273775529572_1844451582164686644_n-307x230.jpg 307w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/254125606_4745273775529572_1844451582164686644_n-440x330.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/254125606_4745273775529572_1844451582164686644_n-513x385.jpg 513w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/254125606_4745273775529572_1844451582164686644_n-433x325.jpg 433w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/254125606_4745273775529572_1844451582164686644_n-507x380.jpg 507w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staffing employment eased for a third straight week Feb. 13-19, with the ASA Staffing Index decreasing by 0.9% to a rounded value of 100.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The ASA Staffing Index is reported nine days after each workweek, making it a near real-time measure of staffing employment trends.<\/p>\n<p>ASA Staffing Starts are the number of temporary and contract employees placed in new assignments during the reporting week.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ASA research shows that staffing employment has historically been a coincident economic indicator.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staffing employment eased for a third straight week, Feb. 13-19, with the ASA Staffing Index decreasing by 0.9% to a rounded value of 100. Some staffing companies mentioned temporary-to-permanent conversions and seasonal business fluctuations as barriers preventing further growth. Staffing jobs were 4.5% below the same week last year. New starts in the seventh week&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/staffing-employment-eases\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[8805,7585,8808,8806,8807,8804,8809,883],"class_list":["post-11487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-featured","category-news","tag-american-staffing","tag-american-staffing-association","tag-asa-research","tag-asa-staffing-index","tag-asa-staffing-starts","tag-staffing","tag-tim-hulley","tag-workforce"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Staffing Employment Eases - Find A Distributor Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/staffing-employment-eases\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Staffing Employment Eases - Find A Distributor Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Staffing employment eased for a third straight week, Feb. 13-19, with the ASA Staffing Index decreasing by 0.9% to a rounded value of 100. 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