So how old is the staffing industry?

From Staffing Industry Analysts' contributor, Jon Osborne, a nice little corporate history lesson:

"'In 1347, plague swept across Europe, killing somewhere between a third to a half of the population. In its wake, it left a labor shortage of unprecedented proportion.

Landlords still had plenty of land, but now they had to compete with each other for labor. Wages went through the roof, the terms of employment gradually began to liberalize and then the unthinkable happened: 'In gaining more power, workers following the Black Death often moved away from annual contracts in favor of taking on successive temporary jobs that offered higher wages,' according to historians Simon A. C. Penn and Christopher Dyer of the University of Birmingham."

USA Staffing Services:
Makes you wonder about what groups (or individuals) saw the opportunity at hand and started recruiting, then supplying, available workers in response to the labor demand of the landlords. Obviously, they must have been an incredibly astute and savvy group!

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