Labor Forecast Predicts 7% Increase in Demand for Temporary Workers for 2022 First Quarter, Signaling Further Signs of Recovery Ahead — Industry Consulting Firm G. Palmer & Associates’ Quarterly Forecast Assists in Previewing Near-Term Hiring Patterns —   Newport Beach, California, January 13, 2022, — Demand for temporary workers in the… Read more »

Dissecting a tangle of squiggly lines … This month we present data that — technically speaking — probably shouldn’t be combined. So shoot me. But, in our ignorance, we may have stumbled across something that is very telling regarding the state of the labor market. This month we look at… Read more »

Staffing Industry Analysts’ Executive Forum is quickly approaching. For its 30th year, this annual event will take place in Austin, TX from February 28th to March 3rd. The theme of this year’s event is “Faster, Better, Stronger: Leadership in a New World.” The aim is to provide insight to staffing… Read more »

MeeDerby Gives Thanks 2021 made over 30 donations in the name of our clients and partners, many of which are depicted on our holiday card. We appreciate that we can support these organizations, and are thankful for your trust, community and collaboration as we impact the lives of so many by putting people… Read more »

Today, December 15th, marks the 33rd anniversary of MeeDerby. This year brought about a lot of positive change as we added new members to our team, held our first in-person retreat for the first time in 3 years and are closing out the year with a record breaking number of… Read more »

 How jobs have returned … and how much further they have to go to get back to where they were … We started this year with our report of the December 2020 employment situation looking at how some staffing-centric industries / sectors have recovered — or had started to recover… Read more »

This Thanksgiving we give thanks for your trust, community and collaboration as we collectively impact the world, putting people to work one job at a time. In 2020 MeeDerby launched MeeDerby Gives Thanks, where we made donations in the name of our clients and partners to a charity of their… Read more »

Congratulations to Robin Mee on being named to the 7th annual Staffing Industry Analysts Global Power 150 – Women in Staffing 2021 List! Robin Mee in 1988 founded executive search firm MeeDerby, which serves the staffing industry itself, and today serves as president. MeeDerby for more than 10 years has operated remotely. With 15-plus… Read more »

Robin Mee, President and founder of MeeDerby, sat for an interview with Diane Doyne, PCM, CDMP, TerraFirma Marketing‘s Vice President of Client Services, to discuss the lessons learned from 2020 and the future of staffing. We have shared the full publication below: In this edition of Leading Edge, we talk with Robin Mee,… Read more »

The Great Resignation continues — or does it and is it really something else? Job openings are self-explanatory, but quits may require some explanation. Quits are voluntary and many consider this metric as a sign of labor market strength — people quit their jobs when they optimistic about their prospects… Read more »