In 2020, Randstad was the leading staffing firm worldwide in terms of revenue. The Netherlands-based staffing company reported a total revenue of ***** billion U.S. dollars. Addeco Group followed in the ranking with ***** billion U.S. dollars in revenue in 2020.
Staffing/ temporary employment companies - additional information
Employment or recruitment agencies find candidates for client companies looking for part time or full time staff. Depending what the client company requires, the candidates are hired as either full employees of the client, or work on a temporary sub-contract basis in which they remain an employee of the agency. Staffing and recruiting industry sales in the U.S. reached *** billion U.S. dollars in 2019. This was a recovery in sales for the staffing industry after the 2009 global recession, when sales dropped around ** billion U.S. dollars, reaching ** billion U.S. dollars.
The second largest staffing agency worldwide was Adecco in 2020, which generated ***** billion U.S. dollars in revenue. Adecco is based in Switzerland and was founded in 1996. The firm has four main service lines – temporary staffing, permanent staffing, career transition service and outsourcing and talent development services. Adecco’s largest service line was temporary staffing in 2019, accounting for ** percent of the firm’s total revenue.
ManpowerGroup ranked as the third largest staffing agency worldwide. The U.S. based firm conducts its business throughout the world, with operations in Southern and Northern Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. Between 2006 and 2019, Manpower generated its highest annual revenue in 2011 at ***** billion U.S. dollars. Since 2012, the company has made around ** billion U.S. dollars year-on-year. Despite minimal growth in revenue, in recent years the income of Manpower has increased from ***** million U.S. dollars in 2012 to ***** million U.S. dollars in 2019.
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Staffing Industry Analysts. (December 13, 2021). Leading companies in the staffing industry worldwide in 2020, by revenue (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved May 07, 2026, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/257876/staffing-companies-worldwide-by-revenue/
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